UK launches biogas task force
According to The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of organic material per year that could be used to produce biogas.
Around 90 million tonnes of this material comes from manure and slurry.
Defra is launching a task force to help farmers and the water industry meet goals to produce energy from anaerobic digestion, which generates gas from the breakdown of organic material without oxygen.
The National Farmers' Union has a goal to run 1,000 on-farm anaerobic digestion plants by 2020, which will power farms and produce fertilisers as a by-product of the process.
Along with farmers, sectors including water, energy, waste and food and retail have signed up to goals for introducing anaerobic digestion to create power by 2020.
The Government is publishing a report which will outline ambitions for developing anaerobic digestion nationally and for individual sectors and details of the task group.
Around 90 million tonnes of this material comes from manure and slurry.
Defra is launching a task force to help farmers and the water industry meet goals to produce energy from anaerobic digestion, which generates gas from the breakdown of organic material without oxygen.
The National Farmers' Union has a goal to run 1,000 on-farm anaerobic digestion plants by 2020, which will power farms and produce fertilisers as a by-product of the process.
Along with farmers, sectors including water, energy, waste and food and retail have signed up to goals for introducing anaerobic digestion to create power by 2020.
The Government is publishing a report which will outline ambitions for developing anaerobic digestion nationally and for individual sectors and details of the task group.
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