Local Generation Bio Energy

Dawn Terry is the Sales and Marketing Manager for Local Generation, an anaerobic digestion plant only recently opened in Wisbech Road, March. It is one of the first of several such plants now operating in England.

In a nutshell, food waste,  brought in from a 25 mile radius is processed over some eighteen days, producing methane gas. This is burnt to power electrical generators. The mega watts of power produced are used to run the plant, provide electricity for the Fenmarc Packing Station, and the surplus fed into the National Grid. Sufficient to cover the needs on over 2000 homes

Dawn gave a very comprehensive personally guided tour to a party of March Rotarians, on a cold, damp, blustery evening on Monday 24^th September. We were taken through the whole process, where the waste food is brought in. We saw pallets of Dog Food that for some reason was not fit for even them to eat. Other items were past sell by date, or maybe had not passed strict hygiene controls set by manufacturers.

All this, including household items, tea bags, egg shells, are minced down into a fine soup, with added water, and passed through various stages until it enters, what could be called in laymen