Major £150m investment aims generate sufficient fuel to power 1,000 low-carbon HGVs and buses every year The UK took a small but significant step forward on its journey towards decarbonising the transport sector on Tuesday, with the approval of the country's first commercial scale Bio-Substitute Natural Gas...
Progressive Energy has won approval for its $193m (£150m) biogas-to-fuel conversion plant, the first commercial-scale UK operation of its kind. The plant is designed to process 175,000 mt of bio waste into low-carbon fuel for heavy goods vehicles and buses. The Bio-Substitute Natural Gas plant will be part of Peel Environmental’s Protos energy hub located between Manchester and Liverpool. Production is expected to begin in 2022. The process can also generate gas for domestic and office heating, Progressive said. The site could also be reconfigured to make renewable hydrogen, potentially linking to the HyNet regional hydrogen network project.