Anaerobic digestion facility opens in Basingstoke

The Basingstoke Anaerobic Digestion Facility will take in approximately 30,000 tonnes of food waste per year, waste that could otherwise end up in landfill. The facility will produce 1.5 MW of renewable energy, enough to power more than 3000 homes, and will also produce a nutrient rich fertilizer which will be returned to estate lands.

The AD facility is located close to the M3 in Hampshire. Formed in February 2012, Tamar Energy is a renewable energy development and operation company, which received £97 million in initial financial backing from investors to build a network of 40 Anaerobic Digestion plants in strategic locations around the UK by 2018. The Basingstoke Anaerobic Digestion Facility is the first one of those projects to achieve construction completion.

FLI Energy provided Tamar Energy with a ‘full turnkey’ design and construction of the entire facility, from demolition and enabling works to prepare the site through to the HoSt digestion technology, reception building construction, feedstock pre-treatment and the commissioning and operator training.