EFELER BİYOGAZ ELEKTRİK ÜRETİM A. Ş.

Our company was established in 2011 to operate in the field of renewable energy. In 2012, we built Turkey's first biogas plant producing electricity entirely from manure in Aydın, and commissioned the plant in 2013.

Our power plant generates electricity from the waste of Efeler Farm, one of the two largest dairy farms in Turkey and Europe with a capacity of 17,000 head of cattle. Currently, the farm has approximately 6,000-7,000 head of cattle. The plant is operating at full capacity with an installed capacity of 2.4 MWe, and our capacity is being increased to 4.8 MWe. By 2016, 3.6 MWe will be fully operational. Our facility currently meets the electricity needs of 5,000 homes, and once fully operational, it will meet the needs of 10,000 homes. In addition to cattle manure, chicken manure and plant waste will also be processed at the plant. In this way, 200,000 tons of plant and animal waste will be disposed of and converted into energy annually.

When the power plant is fully operational, it will generate 40,000,000 kWh/year of electricity, 50,000,000 kWh/year of thermal energy from cogeneration, 7,000 tons/year of dry organomineral fertilizer, and 70,000 tons/year of liquid organomineral fertilizer. Our plant will prevent the release of 100,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually by recovering waste. We are working on a greenhouse project to utilize the hot water obtained from cogeneration. The cooling provided by the trigeneration plant we will establish will be used to cool the cattle on the farm during the summer months, thereby increasing milk yields.