STW starts work on digester plant

摘要

Severn Trent Water has begun construction of a 2-MWe energy crop anaerobic digestion plant in Stoke Bardolph, Nottingham, "the UK's first industrial-scale energy crop anaerobic digestion plant", the water company said July 8.rnThe plant is due to be completed and commissioned during summer, 2010, producing 15 GWh/yr.rnSevern Trent plans to use maize, which it began planting on its 750 hectare site near Nottingham in April, to fuel the new digesters.