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Agricultural Waste to Energy – A UK Perspective

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  • A. J. Griffiths
  • W. Hicks

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The UK has a potential to utilise agricultural waste and energy crops to generate significant portion of its electrical power supplying 2.21 millions homes and saving the equivalent of 13 million tonnes of coal per year. Stimulated by the Non fossil Fuel Obligation orders, suppliers and other contractors have installed about 1200 MW of the Governments 1500 MW target for renewable power generation by the year 2000. Under the first order of 1990, 25.48 MW of generating capacity was installed using biomass and its associated wastes. Under the 1993 order this had increased to 122.78 MW using a variety of different technologies and a more diverse range of wastes and energy crops. The regional potential for both dry and wet waste arisings have been analysed and both the potential, economics and favoured technologies identified.

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  • A. J. Griffiths & W. Hicks, 1997. "Agricultural Waste to Energy – A UK Perspective," Energy & Environment, , vol. 8(2), pages 151-167, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:engenv:v:8:y:1997:i:2:p:151-167
    DOI: 10.1177/0958305X9700800205
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