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Biogas now available for British homes: New ‘green gas’ tariff turns food waste into fuel
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U.K. energy provider Ecotricity is mostly known in Great Britain as a wind power company. But now the self-proclaimed ‘world’s first green electricity company’ is moving into the natural gas market. Biogas or ‘green gas’ is sustainable gas sourced from food waste and sewage, which would otherwise end up in landfills. It can be added to and eventually replace the ‘brown gas’ that is distributed by the U.K.’s National Grid. A story appearing in the Guardian on November 22nd details Ecotricity’s plans and its mission to bring biogas to British consumers.
‘Britain discards about 18 million tonnes of food waste a year, which Ecotricity said could generate enough biogas to heat 700,000 homes. The Conservative Party believes 50% of the UK’s natural gas supply could be replaced by biogas.’
–Guardian
From January, customers in the U.K. will have the option of investing in green gas, of which a percentage will be added to conventional gas during 2010. Ecotricity aims to ‘eventually source 50% of its gas tariff from biogas and would match British Gas on dual-fuel pricing’, which is good news for consumers, especially those interested in developing sustainable power sources. The green energy firm plans on building two green gas mills and may also import biogas from abroad.
‘Extra momentum for UK biogas should arrive in 2011, when the government is due to introduce a renewable heat incentive, giving financial assistance to generators of heat from renewable sources, from householders using ground-source heat pumps to companies such as Ecotricity.’
–Guardian
By Graham Land
Additional resources:
Guardian – You ask, they answer: Ecotricity
Tags: biogas, Ecotricity, food waste, green gas, UK
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