Perpetuum Mobile Albena

Albena, one of the biggest Black sea resorts demonstrate very good circular approach in hotel chain management. The owner company is very environmentally oriented and constructed a biogas plant - anaerobic digester for agricultural and kitchen waste, to produce energy with cogeneration - electric and heat. The heat is used for a greenhouse (and district heating – which is still in progress). The digested material is used as liquid fertilizer in the agricultural fields of the company, for the parks and gardens of the resort. The production of the farms goes directly to the hotels.
With its start, the practice helped in many different aspects. It provided high resource efficiency, good reputation of the company, saved finances, provided quality products. It still have some obstacles with the kitchen waste, but the team is working on solving the problems.
The main “costumers” of the products are the hotels of the chain and all other daughter companies. The electricity is sold to Utility company. Unfortunately there are lot of problems, since the Utility company may always reject complete utilisation of the electricity and the plant should stop producing it. It happens quite often. The fertilisers are used predominantly in companies gardens, bat they are available to all local farmers.The municipality is interested in the future cooperation , so some of the municipal waste to be utilised in the plant as well.