Anaerobic digestion (AD) construction contractor FLI Energy has begun building an AD plant in Euston, Sussex.
As part of a £9 million contract with farming project developers Strutt and Parker Farms Ltd, and farm service contractor, SS Agripower, FLI Energy will design, construct, and commission the AD plant on the Euston Estate inSuffolk. It will also provide five years of maintenance and process analysis support.
Once fully operational, the AD plant will produce 10 million cubic meters of biomethane gas from digesting organic waste from the farm. The majority of the renewable electricity and heat generated by the plant will be used to power the plant itself, with any excess being exported to the gas and electrical grids.
FLI Energy will be collaborating with bioenergy systems supplier HoSt B.V, and will also be receiving the biogas upgrade technology from biogas system supplier Pentair Haffmans.
Charlie Fillingham, Managing Director of Strutt and Parker Farms Ltd, said: “It is key to the success of such complex renewable energy projects to have early engagement with a specialist turnkey contractor such as FLI Energy who have the overall capability to join the project team early on to ensure an optimal and de-risked solution is implemented.
“We are confident that FLI will be able to draw on their significant Anaerobic Digestion project EPC experience to deliver an outstanding biogas plant.”
FLI Energy’s Managing Director Declan McGrath commented: “We enjoyed the collaboration with Strutt and Parker Farms and their project team. Being engaged at the early stages by a prestigious and progressive client with a clear vision of renewable energy provides us with an ideal opportunity to add value early on in the project.
“Our focus has recently been on the decarbonisation of the gas grid, and this year, the completion of the Euston project together with other projects underway will contribute more than 15 million cubic meters of gas to the grid; the electrical equivalent of powering over 8,000 homes.”
UK AD Capacity
This comes at a time when the UK AD capacity is increasing quickly. But last year, the Hospitality Carbon Forum(which includes food retailers such as Nando’s and JD Weatherspoon) called UK AD capacity inadequate, saying “up to half of food waste produced by the hospitality sector is being sent to landfill due to inadequate AD capacity in the UK”. They bound themselves to a suggested WRAP target of 70 per cent of food waste anaerobically digested by 2017.
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