Work has begun on RWE npower renewables’ biomass plant at Markinch, near Fife in Scotland. Work on the three woodchip storage silos started in mid-March and designer and contractor Kirk Environmental says the first silo has almost reached its finished height of 18m above the ground. The plant is run with papermakers Tullis Russell and will replace […]

Oxfordshire County Council has become one of the first local authorities in the UK to establish a purpose-built anaerobic digestion plant. The 30,000-tonne food waste treatment centre at Cassington is the inaugural stage of the council’s plans to generate electricity for 5,000 homes. The facility will be built by Oxfordshire organic waste management specialist Agrivert, […]