GWE Biogas

  • Our biogas plant demonstrates how the food
    waste disposal problem can be solved

  • The treatment of food waste can provide a
    sustainable energy source for future generations

  • GWE is committed to reducing the amount
    of food waste sent to landfill

  • Anaerobic Digestion can help preserve important natural
    resources and stop the emission of carbon dioxide

  • Biogas and bio-methane are
    sustainable fuels of the future

  • We believe in using processes that preserve important
    natural resources and enhance the environment

GWE Biogas Looks to the Future

New plant will provide 50,000 tonnes per annum of treatment capacity

The GWE Biogas Plant

How a similar plant looks to the one GWE are constructing

With an ever increasing need for sustainable food waste disposal, and the need to generate more renewable energy, the new GWE Biogas anaerobic digestion plant near Driffield looks to the future.

The plant will be one of the Country’s leading facilities for the cost effective and environmentally friendly disposal of food waste, when the first 25,000 tonnes per annum of treatment capacity comes on line in mid 2010. The plant, that will have a total treatment capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum when fully complete, will take many different types of food wastes and convert them into biogas (a mixture of renewable methane and carbon dioxide) and a natural fertiliser that can be used as a replacement for non-renewable chemical fertilisers.

In the first phase of the development, the biogas produced by the plant will be used to fuel an engine generator that will produce around 800 kilowatts per hour of renewable electricity for export to the grid. However, in the second phase, it is planned to install equipment that will remove the carbon dioxide component of the biogas to form renewable bio-methane that can be injected into the national gas distribution grid.

The location of the plant, near to Driffield, might seem to some people to be a little illogical, but the setting is critical to the plants success. Many of the Country’s existing anaerobic digestors, especially those located in urban areas, have problems with processing the end digestate. However, by being located in the Wolds, local farmers can utilise the digestate fertiliser produced by the plant effectively.

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