6 megawatt installed and 40 waiting for solar farms

Saria, a subsidiary of the German Rethmann, launches with the co-operative Group Terrena an important unit of methanisation project. This industrial tool, called "Valdis", will be located on the commune of Issé, in Loire-Atlantique, where the public inquiry will begin at the end. It will represent an investment of EUR 12 million and must be put into service in 2011.

mental tonnes of biomass

This equipment will be managed by a joint venture founded by two partners and implement the technologies already experienced in Germany, ahead of the France in the development of the biomass. Verdesis, subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, is associated with the project for electricity production, and the slaughterhouse Castel meat, supplier of material for recycling. The two partners are high-capacity tool, able to valorize mental tonnes of biomass and to provide electricity, at height of 12,000 megawatts per year, or the consumption of 1,500 homes.

Valdis will generate heat to industrial vocation (12,000 megawatts) and fertilizers for agriculture, essential aspect for TERENA. "We seek and find alternatives to chemical fertilizers," said Christophe Couroussé, spokesman for the group. The tool will transform co-products of slaughterhouses, animal manure collected in the surrounding farms and organic waste from large distribution, what makes the originality of the project, one of the first of this magnitude in the greater West.

The methanization is one of the environmental diversification planned by TERENA. The Noëlle environment, subsidiary of the co-operative Group, is particularly active in the field of photovoltaic blankets equipping the roofs of the farm buildings. The company reported 1.6 megawatt installed and 40 waiting for solar farms. The Group has defined a "environmentally intensive" agriculture policy to explore some 60 of experimental subjects, including crops such as corn drip irrigation or the development of ground cover plants to including the maintenance of the fertility of soil, erosion control and the protection of wildlife.

"It is not a solely environmental concern, notes Christophe Couroussé,"but to find real solutions with benefits in terms of production costs."

Experimental subjects

This equipment will be managed by a joint venture founded by two partners and implement the technologies already experienced in Germany, ahead of the France in the development of the biomass. Verdesis, subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, is associated with the project for electricity production, and the slaughterhouse Castel meat, supplier of material for recycling. The two partners are high-capacity tool, able to valorize mental tonnes of biomass and to provide electricity, at height of 12,000 megawatts per year, or the consumption of 1,500 homes.

Valdis will generate heat to industrial vocation (12,000 megawatts) and fertilizers for agriculture, essential aspect for TERENA. "We seek and find alternatives to chemical fertilizers," said Christophe Couroussé, spokesman for the group. The tool will transform co-products of slaughterhouses, animal manure collected in the surrounding farms and organic waste from large distribution, what makes the originality of the project, one of the first of this magnitude in the greater West.

The methanization is one of the environmental diversification planned by TERENA. The Noëlle environment, subsidiary of the co-operative Group, is particularly active in the field of photovoltaic blankets equipping the roofs of the farm buildings. The company reported 1.6 megawatt installed and 40 waiting for solar farms. The Group has defined a "environmentally intensive" agriculture policy to explore some 60 of experimental subjects, including crops such as corn drip irrigation or the development of ground cover plants to including the maintenance of the fertility of soil, erosion control and the protection of wildlife.

"It is not a solely environmental concern, notes Christophe Couroussé,"but to find real solutions with benefits in terms of production costs."