Veolia serves up biogas CHP at Cannington Cold Stores19 January 2015

Cannington Cold Stores' 45,000 tonne chilled food storage site in Bridgwater, Somerset, is now live with a 2MW biogas CHP (combined heat and power) plant, installed by Veolia, which adds to four existing 324kW CHP plants already installed.

The biogas CHP plant was supplied by Cogenco, Veolia's packaged CHP business unit, and is generating electricity by burning biogas from waste food, processed through an anaerobic digester.

Surplus electricity is being exported to the grid under Cannington Cold Stores' feed in tariff (FIT), while excess heat is then to feed the digesters to run the biogas generation process.

Tim Roe, director of Cannington Cold Stores, makes the point that using food waste to generate biogas means that landfill is avoided, reducing potential methane damage to the atmosphere.

Also, by using the waste on site, transportation it is avoided, cutting emissions from vehicle movements, while also reducing congestion and limiting vehicle noise.

Cannington Cold Stores also saves costs associated with fossil fuels.

Biogas is a carbon neutral fuel that delivers renewable benefits for Cannington Cold Stores, boosting the company's environmental performance.

Brian Tinham

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