ABSTRACT

Biogas is a widespread term for gas produced by anaerobic fermentation. The anaerobic fermentation takes place in the natural environment (e.g. in

1 INTRODUCTION

Due to limited capacity of fossil fuels, it is switching to alternative sources of energy. In these sources can be included biogas, which belongs to the gaseous renewable fuels. In Europe is currently over 14 thousands biogas plants, most of them are in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France. Czech Republic is in fifth places in the number of biogas plants, as can be seen in Figure 1 (EBA 2015). In the Czech Republic were about 554 biogas plants at the end of 2015.