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AT AUCTION Inactive biogas power plant in Santa Maria La Fossa (CE), Via Camino, no street number - LOT 6

Biogas power generation plant consisting of a concrete digester and a containerised internal combustion cogeneration engine, together with equipment such as pipes, pumps, trenches and storage sheds, and an electrical substation, located on Via Camino.

The unit was built on third-party land under a contract granting a right of superficies over third-party land for a term of 20 years, automatically renewable twice for 5 years each, and therefore for a total of 10 additional years, unless the concessionaire exercises its right to waive the extensions. The annual fee was set at €2,500 for the first 20 years and €3,000 for the following 10 years.

The plant has an electrical capacity of 100 kW, for a maximum deliverable electrical output of 700 kW, and consists of a single fermenter fed with livestock effluent (as well as any by-products of food origin), collected in a suitably sized pre-tank created from volumes already available on the farm. The fermenter is equipped with a gasometer dome for biogas storage.
The biogas produced is conveyed to the cogeneration engine to generate electrical and thermal energy, after undergoing dehumidification and desulphurisation pretreatment, while the digestate is conveyed to the existing storage tanks for reuse as a stabilised soil conditioner for fertilising fields. The plant is fed with effluent produced by the livestock farm in the immediate vicinity of which the plant itself was built. In this way, biomass can be moved into and out of the digester solely through underground pipes and pumps, avoiding transport by road and/or mechanical vehicles. To ensure a constant supply of biomass to feed the digester and avoid drops in biogas production, provision was also made for a back-up loading system for stackable material, capable of compensating for any temporary shortage of pumpable biomass caused by possible operational issues at the farm. No storage site for supplementary biomass is required on the premises, as the raw material is expected to be transported to the site as needed to meet supplementation and feeding requirements.

To maximise its value and profitability, the currently inactive biogas production plant should be converted to biomethane production.

A right of superficies and easement was established over the plant on 04/10/2016 (registered in Naples 1 on 06/10/2016, no. 18838, Series 1T).

For further information, please consult the appraisal report and the attached documentation.