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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Germany's EnviTec Biogas creates daughter company in India

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German green gas company EnviTec Biogas has created a daughter company in Bangalore, India, in a join-venture [German] operation in which Malavi Power Plant Ltd holds 50%. Last week, India's Energy Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde made a visit to the German company in Saerbeck.

EnviTec's goal is to create biogas plants with a capacity of 16MW. The know-how is German, obtaining licences and making project analyses are done by the Indian partner. The Indian subcontinent is a large emerging market with great potential for biogas as a renewable energy source, a sector strongly supported by the national government.

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