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The Association for the Environmental Disimpact of Pig Slurry (ADAP) has launched the Pig Slurry Treatment Observatory to seek innovative solutions for treating, sanitizing, and denitrifying pig slurry. This initiative follows the Government's refusal to extend the regulatory useful life of pig slurry cogeneration plants, which creates uncertainty in managing surplus in vulnerable areas.
The Observatory will act as a knowledge network that will bring together experts from the livestock, academic, and energy sectors to analyze the best available techniques, combining established technologies such as cogeneration with new developments in biomethane and renewable gases.
The first two treatment plants closed in December 2024 leaving nearly 190 livestock farmers without a viable solution, increasing management costs and putting the sector's profitability at risk. With another 24 plants at risk of closure, ADAP insists on the need for a regulatory moratorium and a Renewal Plan to facilitate the transition to more effective, efficient, and integrated models in the Biomethane Roadmap.
The Observatory was officially launched on March 27 in Madrid, at the Spanish Engineering Institute, with the participation of experts and swine industry representatives.
March 25, 2025 / ADAP press release/ Spain.
