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We only burn rubbish so personally I’d be happy giving that away.
The future in the UK in my eyes anyway is Wind, Solar and AD. AD runs incredible off whisky and brewery waste but needs a lot of it, you can run it off farm waste if you have sugar beet to go with it but it struggles without.
Burning plants I hate for many reasons.
AD plants that also burn are a strange concept and I’ve still not seen one fully work to maximum output although they look good on paper.
I am a projects and commissioning manager for a large company in their BioEnergy section. I see a lot of these plants every week except for the last month where I’ve seen a lot of video calls.
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Don't forget sewage sludge as another well utilised source for AD, the majority of the WaSC's are now approaching 100% sludge to AD, think they all will be by 2025.
Likely to see greater energy recovery from sludge in the future as well if sludge to land is closed as a disposal route which it already has in parts of Scotland as the Japanese won't buy whisky where sludge to land was used in the crop production. So likely to see the waste sludge burned in one form or another.
greentricky
Also we kept selling (or giving away?) our rubbish to Norway which doesn’t help.