Public utilities have always had the responsibility of ensuring a basic supply of gas, electricity and water for the local population. What used to be resolved on a regional level has nowadays become a monopolised business in the field of energy production, reducing the public utilities to energy traders. Here, biogas plants are a step on the road back to self-sustainability in particular for smaller municipalities that aim to rekindle regional responsibility.
If it is not only the institutions but also the citizens that actively participate in the process, then citizens’ biogas plants could also be developed from a participatory and democratic process. As a result, municipalities will become more self-sustaining and the municipal budgets will become more stable.
VBTS provides all-round solutions (planning, planning permission, construction) to municipalities for their own energy production and utilization.