EnviTec Biogas AG

Environmental & Social Information • May 20, 2011

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Corporate | 20 May 2011 08:31

Informing, discussing: Biogas in the energy mix of the future: EnviTec Biogas envites journalists to an informative press day

EnviTec Biogas AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous

20.05.2011 / 08:31

Informing, discussing: Biogas in the energy mix of the future
EnviTec Biogas envites journalists to an informative press day

Lohne, 20 May - Bioenergy is destined to play a major role in the energy
mix of the future - this is the political will. No other source of
renewable energy is so versatile and efficient. EnviTec Biogas AG organised
a press day to inform about and discuss the prospects of biogas in the
energy mix of the future. The present and future political framework
conditions were also discussed. 'We would like to provide information about
biogas, discuss what we do as plant manufacturers and give journalists an
opportunity for intensive research, thus contributing to fair press
coverage on the potential of biogas', said CFO Jörg Fischer prior to the
start of the press day.

The central topic of debate of the event was the future energy mix in
Germany. With the upcoming amendment of the Renewable Energy Sources Act
(EEG), the German federal government is setting the course in the coming
months for the energy turnaround. As storable and regularly producible
biogas compensates in terms of energy generation for the fluctuating
character of other alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar
power, bioenergy represents an important step towards Germany's goal of
Full Supply from Renewable Energies.

The biogas sector is faced with the task of reaching maximum energy
efficiency in biogas plants. Research and development are currently showing
the way to achieve this. As technological leader of this sector, EnviTec
Biogas AG is working on biogas plants which are to require about 40 percent
less input materials by 2020. In the last two years alone, EnviTec has
successfully increased biogas output in company plants by roughly 20
percent. In the long term, these improvements in efficiency will allow for
a considerable reduction of the required acreage for renewable raw
materials per kilowatt of installed capacity.

Journalists visited an EnviTec biogas plant in Lüsche (Municipality of
Bakum, District of Vechta) which supplies a large portion of the town's
households with heat from the plant's co-generation unit, heat which
accumulates as a by-product of power generation. This targeted use of
co-generation already makes biogas the most efficient of all Renewable
Energies today.

About EnviTec Biogas AG

EnviTec Biogas AG covers the entire value chain for the production of
biogas - including the planning and turnkey construction of biogas plants
as well as their commissioning. The company provides the biological and
technical service, and also offers full plant and operating management. In
Güstrow, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, EnviTec
Biogas built the world's largest plant for the production of biogas to
natural gas standards with a thermal output of 55 megawatts. In addition,
the company also operates its own biogas plants. Today, the company is
represented in more than 15 countries throughout Europe, as well as in
India. EnviTec Biogas generated revenues of EUR 148 million and EBIT of EUR
1.0 million in 2010. The EnviTec Group currently has 411 employees. EnviTec
has been listed on the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange since July 2007.

Press contact:
Thomas Bolte
EnviTec Biogas AG
Tel: +49 25 74 88 88 -198
E-Mail: t.bolte@envitec-biogas.de

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Language: English
Company: EnviTec Biogas AG
Industriering 10a
49393 Lohne
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0) 44 42 - 80 65 0
Fax: +49 (0) 44 42 - 80 65 103
E-mail: info@envitec-biogas.de
Internet: www.envitec-biogas.de
ISIN: DE000A0MVLS8
WKN: A0MVLS
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover,
München, Stuttgart

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