Esken Renewables helped the UK avoid 630,000 tons of GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions last year, according to a report by Logica Consultants.
The company receives wood waste from the construction industry and from recycling centres and household waste that would otherwise be sent to landfills where, over time, it would release methane gas.
Esken has used such wood waste to produce biomass fuel. Already last year it supplied 1.1 million tons to biomass plant customers, helping the UK avoid GHG emissions equivalent to the consumption of 135,746 cars on the road.
Including other types of biomass, Esken Renewables supplied 1.4 million tons of fuel that its biomass plant customers used to generate approximately 1,880,000 MWh of electricity. This represents approximately 2% of the UK’s domestic energy use and is enough to power around 650,000 homes.
Producing energy using biomass plants rather than gas-fired electricity also meant that the UK was able to avoid 714,000 tons of GHG emissions in the year from fossil fuels. The combined GHG emissions savings from preventing wood waste from going to landfill and using it to generate renewable energy meant that the UK avoided around 1,344MTCO 2 e in FY22.
Richard Jenkins, chief executive of Esken Renewables, said, “The combination of avoiding methane and generating cleaner energy is already delivering significant benefit to the UK. We believe that, with the right support from government, the biomass industry, and in particular those using fuel from wood waste, can play a key role in the goal of achieving Net Zero by 2050.”
Source: Renewable Energy Magazine (2022)