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An advisory and engineering platform to enable farmers to implement their anaerobic digestion (AD) projects under the best possible conditions has been launched.
Banques des Territoires, with support from the European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH) – a partnership between the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) – has developed the online AD ‘toolbox’ , which is designed to optimise project organisation and provide advisory services to promoters of small-scale regional AD projects.
It provides information and makes tools available to help AD developers to prepare the evaluation and structuring of the basic economics of their projects.
AD is a natural biological process of degradation of organic matter by micro-organisms. This degradation leads to the production of biogas and a digestate, the residue from the process, which can be used as a fertiliser.