The biogas plant of Agrokraft Haßfurt GmbH & Co. KG. Mr Scheithauer takes care of coordination and cooperation and is thus able to supply a wide range of regional facilities with energy.
In 2010, the desire to secure sales of their agricultural produce and the sustainable use of regenerative heat brought farmers from the region together with the local municipal utilities and so they founded Agrokraft Haßfurt. Today, a shoe factory, the leisure centre with swimming pool and the school centre are supplied with heat from the biogas plant.
The operators rely entirely on the engine expertise of 2G from Heek. An Agenitor twelve-cylinder engine generates 450 kW directly at the biogas plant and two Agenitor six-cylinder engines generate 250 kW of renewable electricity at each of the two satellite sites. With an electrical output of 1450 kW, the biogas plant in Hassfurt is already one of the larger biogas plants in Germany.
Managing Director Scheithauer has good things to say about the motors and service from Heek. ‘With 8,600 full-load hours per year, we are at the limit of what is technically feasible,’ says the operator, summarising the successful last few years. It is therefore not surprising that the shareholders are expanding the biogas operation with a further 900 kW Flex CHP unit from Heek. In order to provide enough gas for the peak load of 2,350 kW that will then be available, they are also planning an 8,000 m³ fermentation residue storage facility with a 3,000 m³ gas storage tank, which will also give them the option of storing their fermentation residues for up to 9 months.
But that’s not all. In order to reduce their biogas plant’s own power consumption and feed as much electricity as possible into the grid, the entrepreneurial operators have also installed a 73 kW photovoltaic system on the roof of the machine hall. Everyone is talking about sector coupling, and it is already happening in Hassfurt.
