The abrdn Global Sustainable Infrastructure Partners IV (aGSIP) fund and The Circular Economy Development (TCED) have reached financial close on a greenfield anaerobic digestion plant located in Deeside on the England-Wales border.
The initiative seeks to remove landfill waste and produce renewable energy while removing carbon-dioxide emissions from the conversion process. The project will include the design, building, owning, operation, maintenance and financing of a state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion facility that will produce biogas from food waste through widely used and well-tested anaerobic-digestion technologies.
Once online, the project is expected to convert 120,000 tons of food waste annually into gas. Utilizing a gas upgrader, about 180 megawatt-hours of biomethane will be extracted and injected into the grid, while purified carbon dioxide will be separated and liquified ahead of its sale. A portion of this biomethane will be used to generate approximately