FAQs

WABIO Technologie is a Germany-based provider of unique technology of converting various forms of organic waste into gas and then electricity. WABIOs technology is used in 10 projects realized in Europe and Asia.

WABIO’s role has evolved from a technology licensor to include solutions consultancy. We can be as involved or more hands off depending on the need. We provide services for third party power plants. Out services range from construction to operation, including project development, turn-key service provision, engineering & solution design, operations, maintenance, sourcing feedstock, and even negotiating offtake agreements.

WABIO has been tried and tested for over 30 years. As a leader in biogas, our research pioneered the biogas anaerobic fermentation process. Dr. Jochen Auerbach brings deep knowledge of the field from a 20-year career at the Institute for Bio Fermentation in Leipzig. 

Our extensive knowledge and expertise developing highly efficient bacteria for anaerobic fermentation, together with our constant innovation of biogas production and management processes have led to over 20 registered patents and 10 power plants actively using WABIO technology. 

WABIO’s leadership team is at the forefront of the biogas industry. They continue to improve technically and geographically with an extensive list of design, construction or retrofit projects for third parties looking to gain access to renewable energy.

WABIO can process over 200 types of organic waste. The main categories we work with include food processing waste from meat and fish factories, spent grain from breweries and distilleries, waste from agriculture and livestock, municipal solid waste, and sewage sludge. We’re yet to meet organic waste that we can’t efficiently turn into large quantities of biogas.

WABIO Retrofit uses groundbreaking engineering and solution designs to transform power plants into green energy powerhouses. The plant size is never a question. With WABIO technology, we can build very small or big intelligent plants using what’s already there. We can replace fossil fuel plants or optimise refuse-derived fuel (RDF) plants to deliver twice as much green energy. Our biogas can be fed directly to the power grid.

WABIO produces biogas, a clean renewable energy. Energy, whether in the form of electricity, heat, transport or industrial processes, account for the majority – 76% – of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. WABIO reduces climate change impacts through its waste conversion technologies that capture the methane that would otherwise be released in the atmosphere, and puts it to work. Biogas primarily consist of Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). The combustion of methane produces Carbon dioxide, avoiding the 20 times more harmful methane emissions. By utilising the renewable methane, we change it it climate neutral green CO2 emissions.

WABIO’s processes channels value back up though the value chain, achieving sustainability in a circular economy. 100% of WABIO plants use self-generated biogas energy to function.

In addition, no waste water emissions are discharged at all from a WABIO power plant. If so in some cases, the water is treated and cleaned to EU waste water standards, clean enough to put in reverse without any harm.

Lastly, WABIO supports regenerative agriculture by producing organic fertiliser as a by-product of bacterial waste digestion.

18 months from conception to the start of the plant production. Then 72 hours to digest and produce methane.