Farmgen signs first major customer for 1 MW anaerobic digester

(ADPnews) – Jul 5, 2010 - UK anaerobic digestion (AD) experts Farmgen have signed up their first major customer to receive electricity from a farm-based AD plant in Warton, near Preston.

The 1 MW Carr Farm plant, which is still under construction, will supply clean electricity to The Villa hotel to help it lower its carbon footprint.

Until the GBP 2.5 million (USD 3.8m/EUR 3m) project comes on stream later this year; Farmgen will be using electricity from other renewables to power the hotel.

Lancashire-based Farmgen is also set to start work shortly on a sister plant on a farm near Silloth in Cumbria. The new AD plants will all use crops from fields surrounding the farms, where they are based, to create biogas, which is then burned to generate electricity.

(GBP 1.0 = USD 1.518/EUR 1.210)

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