Alliances generate benefits for all involved – as in the case of the French heat alliance between an agricultural biogas plant and a psychiatric hospital.
The Méthavigne project merits a second glance, especially because society and the environment also benefit from this union of a public institution and a private company. Together with the partner Domaix Energie, the German manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER is setting up the heat source, a 255kW biogas plant, in Mirecourt, Lorraine/France, a town of 6,000.
Besides the farmer and operator Nicolas Jacquot, the medical centre (Centre hospitalier Ravenel) of the Département Vosges benefits from the union. Thus, the communal representatives of the clinic quickly warmed up to the pipeline construction and heat transfer project.
“With the exhaust heat from the plant, our institution will be able to cover its entire hot water needs starting from the commissioning in October 2015”, says Hervé Buffe, technical manager of the hospital, expressing his approval. The suitability of the location and the short distance of only one kilometre from the biogas CHP plant convinced Buffe and his colleagues of the cooperation. Thanks to the uninterrupted procurement of green heat, the clinic can save costs and streamline its ecological profile.
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