1. Planning for Biogas Plants in Denmark
Cristina C. Landt1, 2, Regin Gaarsmand1, Aske Palsberg1, Tyge Kjær1, and Flemming Goldberg-Larsen2,3.
1Roskilde University, 2Energycluster Zealand and 3The University of Southern Denmark.
RUC
Roskilde University
Introduction
Biogas Planning has difficult conditions in Denmark this analysis will highlight three reasons for this: 1) regulation, 2) municipal planning and 3) the various stakeholders. The stakeholders in Denmark that are interesting and is involved in biogas plants have different interests that affected the establishment of the biogas plant and the outcome of the biogas plant. This article examines how the method to establish biogas plants in a case study of Solrod Biogas overcomes these challenges and makes a comparative analysis to planning process of biogas planning undertaken during the project Bioenergy Zealand.
These challenges are:
Regulation: When it comes down to nationals regulation there are six ministries everyone with a sat of regulation and a number of industry organizations have their own set of rules.
Municipal Planning: Altogether this becomes a very complex mix of laws that few officers out in the respective municipalities alone can manage. In Denmark it would normally take anywhere from years from idea to laying the construction, including the processing time of the authorities.
The Various Stakeholders: There are many different types of stakeholders, with equally diverse interests. They all affect the planning of the plant, some more than others. It can be through their mutual agreements between each other, agreements with the plant and their way of acting.
Method:
It’s an analysis of the process through which a biogas plant has been established. To demonstrate the method's usefulness we make a comparative analyze of a another of establishment of biogas plants. Data sources include literature studies (articles, books and reports on planning and biogas as well as regulatory documents), interviews with experts in knowledge institutions and at biogas in the biogas sector.
Result:
Discussion:
We found that in Solrod process had used Integrated design process and Goal-oriented project development as a method to process with the establishment of biogas. The Figure 1 is as a reflection of this method.
The analysis leads a discussion on whether the current planning method can be considered as a Triple Helix Innovation
The municipality
Knowledge institutions
Industry
Figure 2: Stakeholder in triple helix context
Figure 1: The organized for the biogas project in Solrod*
The use of the Solrod method has resulted initial work with a number of biogas plants in several project here among other Bioenergy Zealand.
The model provide good facility that is adequate is studied and sufficient locally embedded plants.
Figure 3: Stakeholder in triple helix context integrated with problem and solution (in red)
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* References:
M. Busch (editor), Solrød Biogas – Conceptioin, project development and realization, (2014).
Solrød Kommue (Teknik og Miljø), Projektbeskrivelse - Kommissorium for Biogasprojektet, (2012).