{"id":6048,"date":"2017-09-14T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asja.energy\/?p=6048\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T09:45:56","slug":"asja-continues-to-grow-brazil-new-biogas-plant-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/news-en\/asja-continues-to-grow-brazil-new-biogas-plant-inaugurated\/","title":{"rendered":"Asja continues to grow in Brazil: new biogas plant inaugurated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14.09.2017<\/p>\n<p>Asja\u2019s expansion in Brazil continues with the opening of a <strong>new biogas-to-energy plant in Sabar\u00e0<\/strong>, Minas Gerais. The <strong>5,7 MW plant<\/strong> was inaugurated on September, 14th, in the presence of the Mayor of Sabar\u00e0 and the Italian consul Aurora Rossi.<\/p>\n<p>Built on the local landfill, the plant will have a positive impact on the whole territory. Indeed, it will not only generate <strong>46.000 MWh\/year<\/strong> of electric energy, enough to meet the annual needs of <strong>25.000 households<\/strong>, but it will also prevent the release of bad odours and noxious emissions. Methane emission will be curbed to the advantage of the environment, as this gas has a climate-changing potential 25 times higher than that of CO<sub style=\"font-size: 13px;\">2<\/sub>. The plant is expected to prevent the emission of about <strong>380.000 ton\/year of CO2<\/strong>, as much as the amount emitted by <strong>180.000 cars<\/strong> in a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The completion of such an important project in a market that will be central to our development plans for the forthcoming years is a great achievement for Asja<\/em>\u201d was the comment of Asja Group\u2019s Chairman <strong>Agostino Re Rebaudengo<\/strong>, while the CEO <strong>Alessandro Casale<\/strong> stressed: \u201d<em>This plant, besides securing the landfill and increasing air quality by capturing the biogas produced by waste, it turns the tons of methane into a valuable source, with a positive spillover effect on the territory both in economic and social terms.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Inaugurazione-Sabar\u00e0-Comunicato-Stampa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> (IT).<\/strong><br \/>\nDownload the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/zlist-no-home-en\/sabara-inauguration-press-kit\/\"><strong>press kit.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDownload the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rassegna-stampa-sabar\u00e0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>press review.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inaugurazione Sabar\u00e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/asjamenoco2\/albums\/72157689328158105\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4394\/37345593375_00836bfe85_o.jpg\" alt=\"Inaugurazione Sabar\u00e0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.09.2017 Asja\u2019s expansion in Brazil continues with the opening of a new biogas-to-energy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,10166],"tags":[10063,10156,10087,10085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asja.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}