FLI Energy starts construction of Euston biomethane-to-grid AD project

FLI Energy, an EPC contractor in the U.K and Ireland, has commenced the construction of the Euston biogas plant, a Biomethane to Grid Anaerobic Digestion (AD) project located on the Euston Estate in Suffolk, U.K.

Once operating to full capacity, the AD plant will generate 10 million cubic meters of biogas, the electrical equivalent of powering over 5,000 UK homes. After upgrading on site it will be exported to the gas grid as renewable bio-methane.

Under the £9 million contract, FLI Energy will provide full EPC wrapped project delivery including the design, construction and commissioning of the plant, as well as a five year maintenance and process analysis support contract, the company said.

FLI Energy signed the EPC contract on February 2014, from project developers Strutt and Parker Farms Ltd, one of the largest farming businesses in the U.K., and SS Agripower.

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Following on from several successful UK biogas projects, FLI Energy will again be collaborating closely with HoSt B.V. from Holland, who have been FLI Energy’s longstanding AD technology partner, to deliver the Euston project.

FLI Energy’s turnkey contract scope includes detailed civil and process design, ground-works, site secondary containment bunding, drainage, silage clamp, digestate storage, AD plant technology, CHP, biogas upgrading, propane addition, and biomethane network entry.

The biogas upgrading technology will be supplied to FLI Energy by the Dutch company Pentair Haffmans.

Charlie Fillingham, managing director of Strutt and Parker Farms, said, “It is key to the success of such complex renewable energy projects to have early engagement with a specialist turnkey Contractor such as FLI Energy who have the overall capability to join the project team early on to ensure an optimal and de-risked solution is implemented.”

To date, the biogas plants delivered by FLI have a combined electrical output of 52,000 MWh each year – enough to power more than 6,500 homes, and potentially diverting nearly 100,000 tons of biodegradable waste from landfill.

Declan McGrath, managing director, FLI Energy, said the completion of the Euston project together with other projects underway will contribute more than 15 million cubic meters of gas to the grid; the electrical equivalent of powering over 8,000 homes.

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