The economic impact was evaluated in a detailed cost-benefit
analysis. The real investment for the entire concept was 3.7 Mio€.
With current knowledge it is probably less, considering that the
implementation was an ongoing process realized over many years paired with drawbacks and learning lessons. Furthermore, the analysis includes all expenses (energy, disposal, personal and service costs of the anaerobic digestion unit) and revenues of the pig abattoir (constant value), an electricity price of 0.105€/kW h, a feed-in tariff of 0.126€/kW h (situation in Austria 2014 for