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Naturgas Energía Biogas Fuel Cell
Gastreatment Services Ingrepro

Naturgas Energía

Naturgas Energía is a reference in the Spanish energy sector, with an important position in the business of natural gas. Is present in the transport and gas distribution and marketing of gas and electricity. Account in the shareholders with the City of San Sebastian (4%), the Basque Energy, SLE (30.4%) and HC Energy (65.6%) belonging to the Portuguese electricity EDP.

Naturgas Energía Group is the second largest distributor of Spanish natural gas market, the third largest marketer clients, and the fifth volume of energy sold, as well as the third player in transmission networks. Naturgas Energía is leader in natural gas markets in the Basque Country and Asturias, and is also the second marketer of electricity in the Basque community. The dual supply of gas and electricity has enabled the company to attract more than 415,000 gas customers and electricity to over 41,000 since its launch in May 2005.

Naturgas Energy has more than 5468 km of gas networks. These are spread over 5161 kilometers of distribution network and 307 kilometers of transmission network, which represents a share of about 10% and 3% respectively of the Spanish gas market, which stands as the third network operator transport sector.

Naturgas energy is present in seven Autonomous Communities manage their own networks: Basque Country, Asturias, Castilla y Leon, Catalonia, Madrid, Murcia and Navarre.

The Group supplies gas to the end of 2007 to a total of 169 locations: 132 Basque municipalities, 31 municipalities in Asturias, and La Robla Agreda in Castilla y Leon, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar in Murcia; Figueres in Catalonia, and Villarejo de Salvanés in Madrid.

Naturgas Energy Department has an R&D from which channel and manage the various innovative ideas of the group. Has an annual budget of more than 1.5 million.

Biogas Fuel Cell

Located in Gijón, Spain, Biogas Fuel Cell S.A (BFC) is a SME that was set up in 2003 to provide technological and environmental services. BFC’s current main aim is developing R&D projects biogas production, management and new applications. To achieve this, BFC is collaborating on several international, national and regional important projects. As a result, BFC has become an expert in several fields which are summarized in the main R&D activities showed below:

  1. Anaerobic digestion process optimization from organic wastes
  2. Biogas cleaning systems
  3. Biogas utilization with Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC)
  4. High added-value product development from biogas
  5. New applications of PEM fuel cells
  6. Renewable hydrogen production using biogas

 

Gastreatment Services B.V.

Gastreatment Services - GtS - is an engineering firm engaged, in the broadest sense of this word, in gas treatment. GtS has more than 50 years of in-house experience in the field of  natural gas and biogas processing and utilization. Furthermore, since July 2005 the quality of GtS is certified according to ISO 9001:2000.

GtS will incorporate in the BIOGRID project its unique purification system developed for the treatment of biogas from landfills and digesters. GtS’ system is designed to upgrade biogas to natural-gas quality by using a compact, all-in-one green unit. Because the final step of the system sequestrates the separated CO2, the biogas is upgraded by a clean process with no release of environmental contaminants. 

GtS’ main business is divided in the following four services:

  1. Consultancy
  2. Engineering
  3. Hardware delivery
  4. Service and maintenance

Timmerfabriekstraat 12
2861 GV Bergambacht
The Netherlands
Tel. (+31) 182 - 621890
Fax. (+31) 182 - 621891

 

Ingrepro

INGREPRO B.V. – a Limited Company with headquarters at Borculo (The Netherlands) and a subsidiary in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), is a bio-tech company specialised in industrial large scale algae production.

Since 2001 the founder of Ingrepro B.V. has been actively involved in the development and exploitation of state-of-the-art Hybrid algae reactors for the production of taylor made algae.

INGREPRO operates three large production sites in the Netherlands and is the largest industrial algae producer in Europe and unique in the world due to its in-depth knowledge of cultivating algae under extreme (stress) conditions in order to obtain Enriched Algal Biomass (EAB). For several major clients in the food and feed sector Ingrepro is producing client-specific EAB.

Furthermore, Ingrepro has highly qualified emploees and closely cooperates with major national and international research institutes, to maintain its leading position in the algae industry.