Waste to energy funding unveiled in Wales
Wales’ Environment Minister Jane Davidson announced £26 million (€29.3 million) of new funding for innovative technology which turns waste into biogas.
The sum will go to local authorities across Wales to help them develop anaerobic digestion plants as an alternative to landfill.
Anaerobic digestion speeds up the natural breakdown of waste from years to days by feeding it into oxygen-starved sealed tanks infested with microbes.
The process produces gasses which can be used to generate heat and electricity or provide fuel for vehicles.
‘We consider it feasible to separately collect some 600,000 tonnes of food waste each year from houses and businesses in Wales,’ Davidson says. ‘Digesting this quantity of food waste in a network of anaerobic digestion plants would generate around 1% of Wales’ electricity needs - 0.2 TWHrs.’
The £26 million of funding has been provided by the Strategic Capital Investment Fund (SCIF), established to shape capital investment in Wales.
This allocation of funding is conditional upon reaching the appropriate commercial and legal agreements needed to deliver these schemes.
The sum will go to local authorities across Wales to help them develop anaerobic digestion plants as an alternative to landfill.
Anaerobic digestion speeds up the natural breakdown of waste from years to days by feeding it into oxygen-starved sealed tanks infested with microbes.
The process produces gasses which can be used to generate heat and electricity or provide fuel for vehicles.
‘We consider it feasible to separately collect some 600,000 tonnes of food waste each year from houses and businesses in Wales,’ Davidson says. ‘Digesting this quantity of food waste in a network of anaerobic digestion plants would generate around 1% of Wales’ electricity needs - 0.2 TWHrs.’
The £26 million of funding has been provided by the Strategic Capital Investment Fund (SCIF), established to shape capital investment in Wales.
This allocation of funding is conditional upon reaching the appropriate commercial and legal agreements needed to deliver these schemes.
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