This month the F\u00f6rka biogas plant\u2019s specially equipped truck arrived at the Strond hatchery to pick up bio-organic residual waste from the production. The biological waste was transported to Bakkafrost\u2019s F\u00f6rka biogas plant, where it will be used for production of green energy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a huge step towards our goal to utilise all material from our salmon production. We are privileged to be among the first movers in the Faroe Islands to use biological waste to produce green energy,\u201d said R\u00f3gvi Jacobsen, operations manager at the Strond hatchery.<\/p>\n
Staff at F\u00f6rka have been preparing equipment to ensure a safe handling of the biological waste. A disinfection system has been developed for the truck to make it capable of transporting bio-organic manure.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt F\u00f6rka, we have a truck that is equipped for transporting biological waste from the Strond hatchery. We have developed a disinfection system for the truck to ensure that no salmon-related diseases are spread when the truck transports the bio-organic manure to the farmers,\u201d explained operations manager Fr\u00f3\u00f0i Mortensen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen green energy is produced of the biological waste, the leftovers are used for bio-organic manure, which contains valuable nutrients, which are used for manuring in different parts of the country. For agriculture this means reduced consumption of imported fertilisers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fr\u00f3\u00f0i Mortensen expects that around 10,000m3<\/sup> of biological waste will be transported from the hatchery at Strond to F\u00f6rka each year. The total annual production will be 1.120 MWh, equivalent to the annual electricity use of 225 households.<\/p>\n Besides producing energy of the biological waste of the farming operations of Bakkafrost, F\u00f6rka produces energy from cow manure sourced from farms throughout the country.<\/p>\n In November this year, F\u00f6rka produced 212 MWh, equivalent to the monthly use of 510 households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bakkafrost\u2019s F\u00f6rka initiative to generate energy from biological waste from the biggest hatchery in the Faroe Islands is expected to be 1.120 MWh a year, equivalent to the annual electricity use of 225 households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}