Among companies that have applied this system are Ursus and Tuborg brewers, according to a representative of Enterprise Capital, Alin Giurgiu, for Business Standard.
Enterprise Capital is the management company of the Romanian-American Enterprise Fund (RAEF), involved in energy operations. Other companies producing electricity from biogas are Chimcomplex Borzesti and Somes Dej.
“The interest of Romanian companies to turn waste into energy is not due to incentives offered by the Government, but rather from pressures for environmental protection, which requires waste treatment,” Giurgiu said. He explained that classic waste treatment methods, chemical or mechanical, involves only costs, while waste treatment for the production of energy generates economic efficiency. “The advantage is local energy production, which one does not have to pay for,” Giurgiu added.
He told Business Standard that RAEF installed a co-generation engine for an Ursus Breweries factory in Buzau, which produces both electricity and thermal energy. The investment is worth €1.5 million. “Residual water from the factory has biological waste, which can be turned into biogas, used as fuel for energy production,” Giurgiu said.
A similar investment is to be made at the Sipcul bread producer’s factory in Chitila, near Bucharest.
