Special Report: Fight against Global Warming

    BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- DQY Ecological Farm, a major organic egg supplier for Beijing, has been providing the capital with electricity converted from chicken manure, Monday's China Daily reported.

    With a total capacity of 14,600 MWh a year, the farm is able to meet the power needs of 10,000 families in Beijing, Tianjin and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in North China.

    The farm installed China's first gas engines last August to generate power and heat from the 80,000 tons of manure produced annually by its 3 million chickens.

    By using biogas for power generation in place of its previous coal-fired source, DQY farm is cutting its CO2 emissions by about 95,000 tonnes a year.

    The company planned to develop the model in other parts of the country, said Gu Qing, vice-president of the farm.

    DQY is a foreign-invested company with registered capital of 208 million yuan (30.5 million U.S. dollars). The company farm produces 71 percent of the organic eggs in Beijing market.

    Its shareholders consist of Beijing Deqingyuan Science and Technology Co Ltd, U.S.-based GEF-Global Environment Fund, Inno Biz Agriculture from Hong Kong, Shanghai Yibei Management Consultancy Company, World Bank member International Finance Corporation and six individuals.