One of the necessary components of any region, including rural areas, is a reliable and uninterrupted supply of affordable energy to residents and businesses. Rural residents who have no or intermittent access to gas alternatively cut down nearby trees and use them to heat their homes. Or they buy firewood from those who have made cutting down trees their job. Considering the number of households living in rural areas, namely 440,000, one can imagine the amount of trees cut down annually to meet the energy needs of the population.

One of the environmentally beneficial alternatives for supplying energy to rural households can be biogas, that is, the production of natural gas from organic waste, of which there is always a sufficient amount in rural areas. Biogas is produced in a special installation where oxygen-free conditions are created, at elevated temperatures, where special bacteria feed on organic matter, and the by-product is biogas (a mixture of methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases). Moreover, it is not necessary to have a large livestock enterprise to effectively produce biogas. Of course, the more waste, the more efficient such production is. But even at the level of one household, you can produce biogas and use it for your own domestic purposes.

All over the world, biogas pays for itself exclusively through the production of biofertilizers, and the biogas itself is only a pleasant bonus, but it can be a very good bonus. In Denmark, for example, which is a leader in biogas production, 18% of the country's total energy costs are covered by biogas.

Although it is a labor-intensive process, biogas production is a smart way to use agricultural animal waste, especially for households with greenhouses, which will benefit from both the biogas itself to heat the greenhouses and the resulting fertilizers to improve productivity.