Representatives from the BioSNG project were handed the award at the 2017 EI Awards Dinner which took place at the Sheraton Grand Park Lane Hotel in Piccadilly on 9 November.
Cadent supported a successful trial in Swindon, which used game-changing gasification technology to make BioSNG (bio-substitute natural gas) from household waste. The trial was judged a success which proved the commercial and technical feasibility of the new technology. Cadent has also provided £8.6m of funding to support building the world’s first commercially operating plant in the town.
David Pickering, Cadent’s BioSNG project manager, said: “This award is the icing on the cake for a project which has been a great success.
“We’re on the verge of a real green gas revolution here and Cadent is delighted to be associated with a technology that can make a major contribution to decarbonising both heat and heavy goods transport – sectors in which it has been extremely difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to date.”
The new commercial £27m BioSNG plant is being built by a consortium of partners made up of Advanced Plasma Power, Progressive Energy, Wales & West Utilities, CNG Services and Cadent. Backing of £11m for the plant was also awarded from Department for Transport’s Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Competition in September 2015 and over £5m is being contributed from the Network Innovation Competition, run by energy regulator Ofgem.
You can see a full list of winners here.
