Green energy at the Roskilde Festival

	You can visit Risø's stand on 26 June from 18:00-24:00 and on 27.-30. June from 10:00-24:00. During the festival on 1-4. July the stand will be open from 12:00-18:00.

The biogas plant will be set up in the Climate Community at the Roskilde Festival on 26 June and remain there until 4 July. The area has been designed as a sustainable area. Inside the plant organic waste from the festival will be converted into biogas and energy by 20 staff members from Risø working shifts. The festival participants are going to experience that their waste is not just a problem for the environment.

Research Assistant Sune Thomsen has been travelling with the plant before, including to the animal show in Roskilde. He is expecting a great interest from the festival participants: "The audience we meet at the festival, are well informed - and they are also talkative, so it's easy to have a dialogue with them." And Sune and the others from Risø DTU would very much like to talk with the audience, because the young could be future DTU students interested in attending the Master of Science in sustainable energy which is offered by Risø DTU together with a number of DTU departments.

Climate Debate
The festival participants' own climate debate can be followed by the debate stage of the Climate Community ‘Climate Shout Out’. Sitting in recycling furniture and in the glow of LED light one can hear, among other things, a presentation by Scientist Henrik Bangsø Nielsen. Tuesday morning he goes on stage to talk about waste as a resource to be used for energy purposes.

On Wednesday Research Assistant Ulrich Hansen will bring sustainable development in developing countries up for discussion. He will tell, among other things, about a project in Ghana, where energy is produced from methane coming from rubbish dumps in the country. The project clearly shows that developing countries are not only a problem for the western world but also representing opportunities.



The biogas plant is BIO-NRG’s first prototype of a small demonstration plant. It has been built from a 1,000 litre intermediate bulk container and is started using degassed slurry which usually comes from a biogas plant in Snertinge. The tank is filled with 600 litres of slurry, organic waste is added and the large crank handle is turned around a few times to mix things well.This is how to get biogas production started quickly. Biogas consists of 60 % methane and 40 % carbon dioxide.