anaerobic digestion

Yorkshire arranges sludge trade deal with Anglian

Yorkshire and Anglian have formed a partnership to treat Anglian’s sludge at Yorkshire’s newly built anaerobic digestion plant in Huddersfield that currently has spare capacity. The plant in West Yorkshire was built as part of Yorkshire’s sludge strategy to move towards 100% anaerobic digestion and its plans to increase onsite energy generation.

10/11/2021

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Thames and SGN team up for biogas installations

Thames has awarded an eight-year contract to SGN to design, build and operate biomethane gas-to-grid facilities at its wastewater treatment works with the first installation due to be completed in March 2022. Gas from anaerobic digestion will be used to heat 3,500 homes in north London.

27/08/2021

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Yorkshire to create waste to resource R&D hub

Yorkshire Water, with the University of York, has begun work on a research hub to improve efficiency of wastewater treatment and extract value from sludge processing while working towards its 2030 net zero carbon ambitions

04/08/2021

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Anglian spreads the word on its yield-boosting AD technology

Eight years ago, Anglian Water developed a new hydrolysis technology to maximise biogas production from the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge – a process that also reduced operating costs and carbon emissions. Steve Riches, Anglian’s lead for HpH technology, explains that the system is now ripe for wider adoption.

03/08/2021

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SVT joins forces to create fuel from food waste

Severn Trent has teamed up with CPL Industries to create low carbon heating fuel from a waste by-product in the processing of food waste.

21/04/2021

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Yorkshire Water agrees £60m sludge removal contract

Yorkshire Water has agreed a contract with Suttons Tankers for the removal of sludge from its wastewater treatment sites that it claimed will cut the company’s carbon emissions by 15 per cent. As part of the £60 million deal, 21 drivers and 33 vehicles have been transferred from Yorkshire to Suttons.

28/07/2020

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National support for AD is ‘critical’

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been urged to provide stop gap funding to support the rollout of biomethane plants when the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme expires in 2021.

23/10/2019

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UK green energy market gets £90m investment

Privilege Finance has announced £90 million of investments into 14MW of new green energy projects for 2019, enough to power roughly 28,000 homes.

18/06/2019

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Iona partners with Wensleydale to produce energy from cheese

Iona Capital, a low-carbon sustainable fund manager, has struck a deal with the Wensleydale Creamery in the Yorkshire Dales to produce over 10,000 MWh of energy per year from cheese-making leftovers

17/06/2019

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One million homes now supplied with biomethane

The number of customers using green gas to heat their homes has risen by a factor of 13 since 2017. Annual production has hit 2.5TWh – a four-fold increase on 2015.

26/04/2019

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Proposal for waste incineration tax if recycling goals not met

A wide-ranging Resources and Waste Strategy, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, says incineration is expected to continue to play a "significant" role in ensuring that rubbish is not sent to landfill.

19/12/2018

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Yorkshire Water awards £57 million contract to Murphy

Engineering and construction company J Murphy and Sons (Murphy) has been awarded a contract worth more than £57 million by Yorkshire Water for a new energy and recycling facility in Huddersfield.

17/09/2018

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