Establishing a competance hub for biogas for supporting regional actors that give advice on building and operating biogas plants for agricultural industry.
There is a growing interest in biogas in Norway. One of the measures to reduce emissions from agriculture is to establish more biogas plants based on livestock manure. There is therefore an increasing need for improved advisory services, which in this case this will be realised in a collaboration with Norges Vel and Norwegian Agricultural Advisory Service (NLR).
The aim of the project is to establish a national competence hub for biogas with livestock manure as a substrate, with special focus on extracting and coordinating updated knowledge from actors who have designed and built facilities, as well as from the partners own consultancy work. The project will study both farm facilities and larger facilities based on livestock manure. The goal is to provide advisers in NLR with the knowledge needed to make good assessments and contribute to the realization of biogas plants in their region.
- NLR and NORSØK will collaborate on the coordination of knowledge to establish the competence hub for biogas.
- NLR currently advises farmers who consider usin biogas for their own farm, and will with its portfolio contribute updated and relevant information that can be used to develope design tools and train NLR advisors.
- NLR will have the main responsibility for contact with farmers, and future daily operation of the advisory service.
- Norges Vel will be responsible for coordinating the projects during the project period, collecting information and developing, testing and evaluating tools for the use of the advisory service with respect to solar energy, wood chips plants and energy saving, and further developing courses on biogas with the farmers as the target group.