200,000 tonnes of potato peelings can be transformed into up to 40 gigawatt hour electricity per year, enough for 10,000 households.

200,000 tonnes of potato peelings can be transformed into up to 40 gigawatt hour electricity per year, enough for 10,000 households.

Biocogen is a biogas CHP installation located on the premises of VPK, a leading European packaging producer. Polluted water coming from VPK's production proces is purified via a bacterial proces which produces biogas. The heat produced by the CHP installation is consumed by VPK. Eectricity is sold to the grid or on to an electricity provider. This CHP plant also produces green and CHP certificates that can be traded afterwards.
· Location: B-8200 Oudegem, Belgium
· Electrical capacity: 1.4 MWe
· Heat capacity: 1.84 MWth
· Feedstock volume: 31,426
· Average runhours: 7,400 per year
· Feedstock: biogas