Severn Trent reopens Derby AD facility

Located in Megaloughton Lane, the facility was closed last year while the company said it added a new front-end and two new digester tanks to the site, which can process 50,000 tonnes of food waste.

The site has now reopened and has entered its performance testing and commissioning phase. By early 2024, once the commissioning is completed, the AD facility in Derby will have the capacity to generate enough energy to power nearly 7,000 homes annually. Additionally, it will produce valuable organic fertiliser for use in local agriculture.

The refurbishment project was a collaborative effort between Severn Trent Green Power’s in-house engineering team and Agrivert Ltd, which served as the primary CDM contractor for the project.

‘Delighted’

Christer Stoyell, managing director of the company said: “We’re delighted to be relaunching our Derby AD site following extensive upgrades over the last 12 months. We’ve invested heavily in the site and look forward to it now becoming a flagship facility for the collection and processing of food waste from across the Midlands.

“We believe that the site is a major asset to the community in Derby, helping to turn food waste into renewable energy to power UK homes and businesses and produce a nutrient-rich liquid bio-fertiliser for farmland. The completion of the Derby project alongside our recent acquisition of Andigestion Ltd cements Green Power as the largest producer of renewable energy from food waste in the UK across our portfolio of 11 AD facilities.”

The primary sources of food waste will include nearby local authorities and commercial customers, such as food producers and retailers.

Acquisation

This comes after the Competition and Markets Authority approved Severn Trent Green Power’s bid to acquire anaerobic digestion specialist Andigestion Ltd for an undisclosed sum (see letsrecycle.com story)