Ecobreves – CUBA: Biogas – With Vietnam's Help

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HAVANA, Dec 15 2007 (IPS) - A biogas plant with a capacity of 80 cubic meters is being built on a poultry farm in Cuba, one more to add to the 65 medium and large plants already operating in the livestock province of Las Tunas. This one in particular is part of a workshop given there by experts from the Energy Institute of Hanoi to foment the use of biogas as an alternative energy source.

“We are betting on biogas as the principal alternative contributor, with benefits for the environment, soil improvement and lower investment costs,” Manuel Díaz, president of Cubasolar, a non-governmental clean energy group, told Tierramérica.

The second to two courses concluded this month, given by Vietnamese experts, with 35 professionals receiving training.