The project on converting ‘verge grass to biogas’ has advanced to the next scale of verge harvesting research and development. In 2017 Lincolnshire County Council secured a grant to design and build a UK specific prototype verge harvester and to test aspects of the unit design and harvesting /...
The 2017 report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has just highlighted a worrying increase in the risk posed to many of the priorities of the government’s National Adaptation programme because “opportunities for modest, timely intervention to avoid long term problems are being overlooked”. The...
Peakhill Associates Ltd’s leading role in demonstrating the potential for verge biomass as a significant feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion was recognised at the 2017 ADBA World Biogas EXPO. Peakhill Associates was short listed in the International Research Category alongside entries from Germany and Spain. The black-tie awards dinner...
Biomass can have a significant role to play within the carbon reduction strategy of the UK. A recent report (Link) from the Energy Technology Institute (ETI) has suggested that appropriate biomass supply chains could supply up to 10% of the UK bioenergy by 2050. In order to achieve this...