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The German Benedictine Abbey of the Missionaries of St Ottilien has begun building a biogas plant which will enable the community to produce its own electricity and sell power to the local community.
The abbey compound n Oberbayern, Bavaria, includes a high school with 770 pupils, a 120-bed guest house, the monastery building with about 110 monks, several workshops, a refectory, a printing press and a farm with 180 cows, said a Fides report on Independent Catholic News.
It consumes one-quarter of a million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity each year.
The new plant, which willuse wood, grass, maize and sewage produced on the monastery grounds, is expected to generate an annual two million kWh of power. This means the monks will produce 150% of the power needed, and save costs.
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Benedictine monastery goes green (Fides/Independent Catholic News)
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