ENERGOS wins prestigious renewables award

Pioneering energy from waste business ENERGOS, part of ENER-G Plc, has won a British Renewable Energy Award for its innovative development of the UK’s first gasification plant to operate from waste.

The advanced thermal conversion project on the Isle of Wight, part of the government’s New Technology Demonstrator Programme, was judged an outstanding achievement by awards organisers The Renewable Energy Association – winning the Developer Award.

The small, community sized plant, which is set to open this July, will run alongside a recycling operation to generate 2.3MW of green electricity from residual waste, enough to power more than 3,000 homes. 

“We are delighted to receive this award and are very proud to have made available to the UK waste industry the first gasification plant on waste”, said Nick Dawber, managing director of ENERGOS. “We believe that our strategy of providing community sized energy from waste solutions that complement local recycling initiatives is the way forward.

“At the Isle of Wight we want to show how this advanced technology can be utilised at the heart of any community to provide an environmentally friendly, low emission solution to local residual waste”.

The awards judges commented: “We believe the renewable energy uses for bioenergy residues offer huge potential for contributing to both sustainable energy and waste reduction objectives. We consider that innovative new projects, such as the ENERGOS gasification plant, will make a substantial contribution and deserve recognition.”