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The city executive Vadim Bulavin and the general director of company Vodokanal have signed an agreement on intentions with RWE Power AG (Essen) on a project of methane and carbonic oxide utilization at Nizhniy Novgorod aeration plant. The agreement will have effect within the limits of Kyoto Protocol for the purpose of reduction of greenhouse gases emission to the atmosphere.

Production of biogas has started in the northern district of Panjakent as part of the «Community Agriculture and Watershed Management, Zarafshan Valley» Project. Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the head of the Common Interest Group, Biogaz, Ehsonali Ashouraliyev, said that a micro project of the Credibility Investment on production of biogas from organic waste (manure) had been launched in the village of Chinor.

ZORG Ukraine (Kyiv) intends to build a biogas plant at a farm in the village of Velykyi Krupel (Kyiv region) by October.The company made this statement, a copy of which Ukrainian News has obtained. ZORG Ukraine and Ukrainian Milk Company signed a relevant contract on construction in February.Cattle manure will be raw material for the biogas plant.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Ukraine can produce 20 billion cubic meters of biogas for domestic needs.“We consume 78 billion cubic meters of gas, whereas we have a potential for producing 20 billion cubic meters of biogas. Let's make biogas one of the sources [of our energy],» Tymoshenko said while addressing Zaporizhia regional executives on Thursday.

Ukrspyrt, the state concern of alcoholic beverage industry, has intention to launch production of biogas at 21 distilleries by 2010. In particular, for 2008 the concern has plans to introduce biogas production at extra-budget expenses at 10 enterprises, total capacity in equivalent of natural gas is expected at 36 million cubic meters a year.