First injection of Biomethane

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 8696T Pressure Technologies PLC 05 October 2010  \n \n\nFirst injection of Biomethane into UK National Grid\n \nPressure Technologies plc is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Chesterfield BioGas (\"CBG\"), successfully completed its first biogas upgrading project when, earlier today,  injection of organically produced gas was made directly into the National Gas Grid (the \"Grid\") at Thames Water's site in Didcot, Oxfordshire.  This achievement is a first for the UK energy industry and the success of the Didcot site will be monitored closely.\n \nThe gas being injected to the Grid is produced from dirty biogas generated in the waste water treatment process at Didcot.  This gas is upgraded to 97% pure methane (\"biomethane\"), using equipment supplied and installed by CBG.\n \nCBG has the UK licence to provide a proven biogas water scrubbing technology, developed over the past 20 years by Greenlane Biogas, based in New Zealand.  This technology is successfully being used in Japan, Korea, Germany, Spain, France and, predominantly, Sweden, which has pioneered the use of biomethane as a vehicle fuel and alternative to fossil fuel gas.\n \nThe gas produced by Thames Water is being injected in to the Grid, owned by Scotia Gas Network, and is being purchased by Centrica for sale to its domestic users. \n \nEnergy and Climate Change Secretary, Chris Huhne, said in a statement today:  \"This is an historic day for the companies involved, for energy from waste technologies and for progress to increase the amount of renewable energy in the UK.\"\n \nResearch published by National Grid shows that if all potential sources of biogas were collected and processed using anaerobic digestion and biogas upgrading, it could fulfil almost 50% of the UK's domestic gas requirement.  This would contribute significantly to a reduction in greenhouse gases and guarantee security of supply by reducing the volume of imported gas usage.\n \nAdoption of this type of technology in the UK has been hampered by the distortion of subsidies for electricity generation in Combined Heat and Power (\"CHP\") plants.  The introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive (\"RHI\") in 2010 has gone someway to rebalancing this disparity.  A further review of the RHI, due to be ...

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