Microbiology for Energy Independence

To make biogas production a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, the BTU is developing customized microbial communities in the EU project Micro4Biogas. About the MICRO4BIOGAS project. MICRO4BIOGas is an EU-funded project working on the development of customized microbial consortia to increase biogas production. It is funded with 5.7 million euros for the entire project. 111,000 euros will go to BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. The project brings together 15 institutions from six countries (including universities, companies and the local government of a Spanish city where a state-of-the-art biogas plant is being built) and aims to increase the yield, speed, quality and reproducibility of biogas production and consolidate this renewable energy as an ecologically, politically and economically viable option.