Europe’s first poultry manure biogas plant in action

16-04-2018 | |
Northern Ireland's new biogas plant, capable of converting 20% of the country's poultry manure into electricity. Photo: Picasa
Northern Ireland's new biogas plant, capable of converting 20% of the country's poultry manure into electricity. Photo: Picasa
Biogas has the potential to turn muck to electricity, but using poultry manure has historically been a challenge. Poultry World explores a Northern Ireland site doing just that. It has been eight years in the planning and took 18 months to build but finally Europe’s only biogas plant that is fuelled solely on poultry manure is running at full capacity. Sited in part of a fully operational quarry in the heart of Northern Ireland the 3MW plant cost £23million to construct and can use up to 40


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