Biogas production provides renewable energy alternative on Italian farms

By Jamie Brown
Updated November 17 2017 - 9:54am, first published November 9 2017 - 9:00am
Saverio Acerbi used to produce milk from 500 Frisean cows but today concentrates on power production, with a one megawatt per hour biogas plant at Cascina Valentino, Pizzighettone via Codogno, Lombardy.
Saverio Acerbi used to produce milk from 500 Frisean cows but today concentrates on power production, with a one megawatt per hour biogas plant at Cascina Valentino, Pizzighettone via Codogno, Lombardy.

Farming the alluvial soil in northern Italy’s Po Valley is an ancient practice that intensified only in the past 40 years, after producers were convinced to follow the American model. Today some of the larger farms have included power production in their business model using biogas digesters.

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