Technology from Upper Austria makes Kitzbühel's wastewater treatment plant energy self-sufficient.
Using a patented process, VTA ‘Hydropower’ extracts the hydrogen from conventional wastewater and converts it into green electricity. According to the Rottenbach-based company, entire wastewater treatment plants can be operated energy self-sufficiently. This new technology, ‘Made in Upper Austria’, is now to be used in the Tyrolean ski metropolis of Kitzbühel.
Exemplary throughout Europe
The project was presented to the public at the 12th Kitzbühel Water and Energy Symposium by VTA founder and owner Ulrich Kubinger and his daughter Marlen as well as Kitzbühel's mayor Klaus Winkler. According to VTA, the new plant should be producing so much electricity by next year that there will even be residual energy available for the town's power grid.
