Jühnde is a municipality in the south of the district of Göttingen, in

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. Recently, the village has come to be known as the first so-called " bio energy village" in Germany. Since autumn 2005, the heat and electricity supplies for the village have been entirely harnessed from waste products collected from the surrounding fields, by feeding them into a one-of-a-kind

biogas plant Biogas is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste and food waste. It is a r ...

.Jühnde, le village de la bioénergie (French)
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