Poland’s National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOSiGW) has approved more than PLN 101 million (€24 million) in financing for a new municipal biogas facility to be developed by waste-management company Eko Dolina.
The project, located at the company’s site in Leżyce in the northern Pomeranian province, is expected to cost in excess of PLN 140 million, NFOSiGW confirmed.
Funding will be provided through a combination of over PLN 45 million in grants and more than PLN 55 million in loans from the Modernisation Fund, under a programme aimed at expanding cogeneration capacity fuelled by municipal biogas.
Delivered under a “design and build” contract, the installation will feature a methane-fermentation plant capable of processing around 30,000 tonnes of bio-waste annually from surrounding municipalities.
The resulting biogas will be used to generate both electricity and heat through cogeneration.
Surplus power will be exported to the national grid, while recovered heat will serve the facility’s wastewater systems.
Eko Dolina’s chief executive, Damian Kleina, said the agreement marked a pivotal step in modernising the company’s infrastructure, improving waste-processing performance and boosting renewable energy output in line with circular-economy principles.
The Modernisation Fund is financed through the sale of 4.5% of the EU’s carbon-emission allowances, with revenues managed by the European Investment Bank. Poland is projected to receive up to PLN 60 billion from the mechanism between 2021 and 2030.
Eko Dolina secures €24m from Poland’s eco-fund for new biogas plant
