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London’s first commercial anaerobic digestion plant
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced that the first project that it invested in has been completed on time and within budget, and is generating power. The TEG Biogas plant in Dagenham was officially opened in April, by Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable.
The plant is London’s first commercial-scale anaerobic digestion and composting facility. It has been constructed, and is being operated and managed, by TEG Group, which develops and operates organic composting and energy plants. The TEG Group is now providing on-going operating and maintenance services to TEG Biogas under a 15 year contract.
Situated on a site owned by the Mayor of London and within his London Sustainable Industries Park (LSIP) in Dagenham, the plant has the capacity to process up to 50,000 tonnes per annum, of food and green waste. Much of the waste, which could have otherwise gone to landfill, will come from households and businesses across London. It will produce 1.4 MW of renewable electricity each year, which is being sold to the National Grid. It will also produce 14,000 tonnes of compost and 36,000 tonnes of digestate each year, for agricultural use. Residual heat produced by the plant will amount to 1.15 MW and will be used by the plant’s nearest neighbour Closed Loop Recycling, the world’s first food grade PET and HDPE plastic bottle recycling plant.
GIB’s first investment, via its Foresight-managed fund UK Waste Resources and Energy Investments (UKWREI) fund, was announced in late 2012. Foresight played a pivotal role in the transaction, providing capital from two of its managed funds and structuring the deal.
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable MP, said: ‘This plant provides a cutting edge, environmentally friendly way to manage London's waste and generate power.’
The Mayor’s London Sustainable Industries Park has been designed to create a cluster of environmentally focused enterprises such as low carbon energy from waste plants, innovative waste facilities and other CleanTech infrastructure (such as recycling, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, biomass). The TEG Group joins Closed Loop, an expanding plastic recycling business, on the Park, with two further sustainable energy from waste businesses due on site in the next 12 months.
News Item details
Journal title: Energy World
Subjects: Banking, finance and investment, Maintenance, Skills, education and training, Policy and Governance, Transformation [Energy processing] (Conversion), Natural biogases, Wind power, Biomass, Anaerobic digestion
