BIOGEST AMERICA INC., US arm of the leading European biogas plant manufacturer, introduces a brand-new integrated biogas technology that turns stover into electric power and heat at the World AG Expo, the world's largest agricultural trade show.

TULARE, Calif. and DENVER, Feb. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The World AG Expo was the perfect stage for Biogest, operating out of Denver, CO, to present their innovative biogas technology allowing the economic utilization of stover. For the very first time, the market was introduced to an integrated system capturing the entire stover process beginning with the harvest, to the special pre-treatment, to finally generating electric power and thermal energy in the biogas plant.

Biogest is a single source provider of technological solutions for the exacting customer from the agricultural industry, delivering the optimal process line and an overall leveraged solution for processing stover.

A first timer at the World AG Expo, Biogest works in the US on stand-alone client projects as well as biogas plants jointly developed, operated and owned by Biogest and its local agricultural partners.

Biogest is a leading international manufacturer of biogas plants headquartered in Austria, with operations in Great Britain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania and Serbia. A young and agile company established in 2007, Biogest has more than 130 successfully operating biogas plants, spread throughout Europe, delivering power and biomethane to reinforce the company's compelling technological footprint.

Biogas is a renewable energy source with technological, ecological and economic benefits that allows energy production 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Thus Biogas will play an important role in the sphere of renewable energy sources along with small-hydro, wind and solar. On top of its contribution to achieve global climate protection goals, biogas helps to cut energy imports. The decentralized production of biogas energy improves rural infrastructure and diversifies rural income streams.