UK pig farm to generate power from 500-kW EnviTec biogas plant

Oct 17, 2012 - The UK unit of German biogas plants maker Envitec Biogas AG (ETR:ETG) said Tuesday that commissioning was in progress of a 500-kW biogas facility at Yorkshire-based Melrose Pigs.

The plant, which is based on Envitec Biogas’s anaerobic digestion technology, will be fuelled partly with slurry from Melrose’s finisher pigs. The plant will also run on maize and grass silage produced at Melrose’s sister company Northern Crop Driers. The electricity generated by the plant will be used to power the farm’s operations with any extra power to be fed to the grid.

The biogas plant will help make slurry storage at Melrose simpler, while the digestate produced by the plant will be used as fertiliser as an added advantage.

At first, the plant will only generate electricity, but Melrose hopes to be able to use the heat as well in the crop drying process and to access the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme in the UK.

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