An innovative, large-scale waste to energy project in Germany is successfully employing fuel cell technology to efficiently produce electricity and heat from biogas.
Nexterra Energy has announced a development programme to commercialize a new application of its biomass gasification technology to generate power and heat from small-scale plants.
CHP and decentralized energy schemes are necessarily flexible, serving variable on-site loads as opposed to merely pumping power into a grid and, in the case of CHP at least, providing energy in two (sometimes three) different forms. The ability to operate in flexible, load-following patterns is essential.
A food waste collection and disposal company based in the UK's County Durham is working with food catering specialists Taylor Shaw to process the leftover food waste from over 200 schools for the production of biogas.