Abstract
Renewable
energy plays an increasingly crucial role in ensuring the energy
security of Poland. Due to a large area of agricultural land, a
relatively high cattle and pig population, and well-developed agri-food
industry, the main source of renewable energy in Poland is agricultural
biomass. The study focuses on the development of agricultural biogas
production in Poland. The main purpose of the considerations was to
present the current state of development of the agricultural biogas
market in Poland, including technological aspects. As it appears from
the analyses, the production of agricultural biogas increased in
2011–2014 by 137.29 million m3. Also the structure of
consumption of substrates from the agricultural biogas production
changed towards a wider use of products from the agri-food industry.
Currently, the total capacity of plants for the production of
agricultural biogas in Poland is 244,156,466 m3/year. The use
of biogas from agricultural biogas plants is an increasingly important
element of the distributed power generation in Poland.
Keywords
- Agricultural biogas;
- Installations output;
- Poland
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