Costs of Producing Biogas at Dairy Farms in The Netherlands

By 2020, Dutch dairy chains envisage to be self-sufficient with regard to energy used by dairy farms and dairy processors. This would require dairy farms to produce 25 PJ per year, possibly by a combination of wind, solar and biogas. This paper focuses on biogas. To evaluate the project’s viability we estimated the expected technical and financial performance of 4 types of business models, i.e. “CHP-farmâ€, “CHP-largeâ€, “green gas†and “central upgrading of green gasâ€. Data stem from among others 23 biogas plants in the Netherlands. Anticipating that CHP-models and green gas model... Mehr ...