Biomethane on the British menu
UK utility provider British Gas will build five biomethane demonstration projects to inject purified biogas into the UK’s national gas grid for use by consumers.
The projects are due to come online in mid-2010, with the first biomethane project seeing the construction of a plant to purify raw biogas from Thames Water’s Didcot sewage works.
Thames Water and Scotia Gas Networks already produce biogas at the site but this is flared off. The new plant will mean the upgraded gas is instead injected into the UK’s national gas grid for use by consumers.
British Gas has also signed development agreements for feasibility studies with four other companies: GWE Biogas, which produces biomethane from food waste and farm crops, Potters Waste, which produces biomethane from manufacturing waste, Dillington Biogas, which uses farm waste slurry and Adnams Brewery to look at biogas production from brewery waste.
‘With 85% of homes heated by natural gas, this is a fantastic opportunity to deliver renewable heat through our existing gas network and central heating boilers,’ says British Gas MD of communities and new energy, Gearóid Lane.
The projects are due to come online in mid-2010, with the first biomethane project seeing the construction of a plant to purify raw biogas from Thames Water’s Didcot sewage works.
Thames Water and Scotia Gas Networks already produce biogas at the site but this is flared off. The new plant will mean the upgraded gas is instead injected into the UK’s national gas grid for use by consumers.
British Gas has also signed development agreements for feasibility studies with four other companies: GWE Biogas, which produces biomethane from food waste and farm crops, Potters Waste, which produces biomethane from manufacturing waste, Dillington Biogas, which uses farm waste slurry and Adnams Brewery to look at biogas production from brewery waste.
‘With 85% of homes heated by natural gas, this is a fantastic opportunity to deliver renewable heat through our existing gas network and central heating boilers,’ says British Gas MD of communities and new energy, Gearóid Lane.
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