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Technical and commercial assistance concerning waste manure treatment for BSAG

Commitment created: 2010 February 02, 11:36

PART1: Committing entity

1. Name and title of the person who formulated the commitment

Pekka Kansanen

2. Name of the committing organization

City of Helsinki, Helsinki Energy

Please indicate also the type of the organisation

state agency or public body

3. Home country of the committing organisation

Finland

Organization homepage (like www.bsas.fi)

www.hel.fi

4. Contact person – content of the commitment – name

Seppo Ruohonen

Contact person – content of the commitment – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

seppo.ruohonenREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]helen.fi

Contact person – content of the commitment – phone number

096172001

5. Contact person – for communication – name

Seppo Ruohonen

Contact person – for communication – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

seppo.ruohonenREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]helen.fi

Contact person – for communication – phone number

096172001

6. Contact person – for communication – postal address

Kampinkuja 2
Helsingin Energia, 00090 HELEN

PART2: Commitment information

9. Commitment title and designation/acronym etc (that you wish to use)

Technical and commercial assistance concerning waste manure treatment for BSAG

10. Nature of commitment

Professional service

11. Description of commitment and the implementation strategy

Helsinki Energy has a lot of experience in using gas as a fuel, and biogas will be one interesting alternative in future plans to reduce city's greenhouse gas emissions, when the produced biogas can be converted to synthese gas and the gas can be conducted through the gas pipeline to Helsinki to replace fossil fuels. Helen can support the starting project by serving technical assistance in concept planning of the project.

12. Focus area (see HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan)

Eutrophication

13. Objective of commitment and its impact on the Baltic Sea (temporary, permanent, etc.)

To minimize the diffuse nutrient loading to the Eastern Gulf of Finland from agriculture and animal farming.

14. What is needed for the commitment to be successful? (one-time action, continuous support or/and financing, support for a certain time period)

Close cooperation with the local farms and poultry plants, the local and regional authorities and the financiers for the technology investments

15. Geographic scope of the commitment (Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Proper, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat, the whole Baltic Sea, etc.)

Gulf of Finland

16. Partnership opportunities and contact information for this purpose

Local farms and authorities,
seppo.ruohonenREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]helen.fi

17. Is your commitment/contribution a highly significant, significant, medium or minor effort to your organisation?

Significant effort

18. Starting date

2010 March 1^st

20. Expected commitment duration

6 months

21. Other information

In the Leningrad Oblast area, the amount of waste that is produced in the animal farms and large chicken farms equals to the amount of a large metropolitan area. Alone the industrial poultry plants produce huge amounts of manure waste. A single chicken farm can produce 50 000-70 000 tons of waste manure per year. The potential production capacity of biogas will be approximately 3-5 TWh/a.

Milestones

19. First / next milestone - title

Planning of the project

First / next milestone - date

2010 March 1^st

First / next milestone - description

The next steps depend of the results of the preliminary study.

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