| The average household in the UK uses around 1 kilowatt of energy each hour and generates around a tonne of waste every year. Working with industry, the government is looking for ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels used for energy generation and to reduce landfill for disposing of household waste. Now proposals for a Sustainable Energy Facility have been accepted for East London which can address these issues.
Waste
thrown away by householders in East London contains valuable energy,
a proportion of which is renewable. Even after recycling, composting
and further treatment, energy could be safely recovered from this
waste.
Novera Energy, one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies has been granted planning permission to develop a new Sustainable Energy Facility in Havering. The facility will take waste left after recycling and, via a thermal treatment process called gasification which produces a clean gas, use it to generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 10,000 homes.
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