UK’s green bank backs clean energy projects in NI

A fund backed by the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is providing £3.2 million for two plants that will generate power from farm waste in Northern Ireland. The cash from the Waste Resources & Energy Investments Fund, managed by Foresight Group, will support the construction of the on-farm anaerobic digestion plants in Cookstown, County Tyrone […]

£3m farm waste-to-energy fund open

Farmers in England looking to set up small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) plants are now able to apply for funding as part of a new £3 million initiative. The On Farm Anaerobic Digestion Loan Fund is offering farmers commercial loans of between £50,000 and £40,000 to help construct AD plants that generate less than 250KW of […]