Eva Energia begins operating 5MW biogas plant

Eva Energia, an Urca Group company, will start operating its third biogas power generation plant in Brazil at full power by the end of the week.

The plant has 5MW in installed capacity, which will be mainly sold to retail, food and beverage, finance and transport companies that migrated to distributed generation. The company will generate the biogas at a landfill in Maua, Sao Paulo state, following a R11mn ($2.17mn) investment in the plant.

Eva Energia already represents a quarter of the total biogas distributed generation market in Brazil, according to biogas producers association Abiogas. The new plant will represent 27pc of the total capacity of the company.

Under Eva Energia's distributed generation model, customers pay for a portion of the output from the plant even though that power may never directly reach their business.

By Rebecca Gompertz