Abstract
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Highlights
The Czech Republic has seen an enormous increase in the number of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the period after the accession to the European Union in 2004
In 2010 two thirds of farms in the Czech Republic were below the size of 9.99 hectares of agricultural land, a one fifth was in the range of 10-49.99 hectares and only about a tenth of farms were larger than 100 hectares
This paper has examined how the size of agricultural farms in the Czech Republic varies according to changing natural conditions and what the distribution of AD plants can tell us about the strategies of certain farm types
Summary
The Czech Republic has seen an enormous increase in the number of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the period after the accession to the European Union in 2004. Biogas alone already generates about 2.8% of total electricity production in the Czech Republic (2014) It is, a significant source of energy, which in addition to the electricity supplied to the transmission network generates heat, which is currently used only rarely, just for sporadic heating of nearby buildings and to cover the heating needs of the AD plant itself. A significant source of energy, which in addition to the electricity supplied to the transmission network generates heat, which is currently used only rarely, just for sporadic heating of nearby buildings and to cover the heating needs of the AD plant itself This limited utilisation of the heat output makes the benefits of these facilities that could considerably support local development, quite limited (Braun, 2007). The problem is in emerging resistance of a part of the local population against the operation of AD plants (Martinát et al, 2013), the perception of biogas as a source of renewable energy (Doci and Gotchev, 2016) or in the general opposition to the localization of energy plants (Frantál et al, 2016)
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