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Construction has started on a plant to inject green gas into the grid in Suffolk, the latest development in an emerging sector.
The £9 million facility will generate 10 million cubic meters of biomethane a year from organic waste on the Euston Estate. Some will be burned onsite for power and heat but the majority will be cleaned up and exported to the gas grid.
FLI Energy, the contractor on the project, has built biogas plants with a combined electrical output of 52GWh a year, enough to power more than 6,500 homes.
Injecting biomethane into the gas grid is a relatively recent development, however. While it is potentially a more efficient use of the energy, it requires the gas to be processed to a higher standard.
FLI Energy managing director Declan McGrath said: “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.”
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