Biogas future at Pinkham Way: "Nigel, don't go up on that AD digester roof! Nigel!" "Aaaaaaaaaagh!" (Tumpty-tum, te-tumpty-tum; tumpty-tum, ...)

Link to 'Anaerobic Digestion News' web site

"The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association predicts that 1,000 anaerobic digestion biogas plants will be built in the next five years, at a cost of £5 billion, mostly funded by the private sector.

"We are currently way behind many of our EU counterparts when it comes to AD - it's embarrassing really. There are two main opportunities, either

• farm-scale, self-sufficient in feedstock [like on BBC's 'The Archers'], or
• commercial-scale, handling external feedstock such as food waste."