Poo power To Heat Homes In West London As Thames Water Continues To Reduce Its Carbon Footprint
The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from Thames Water.
These are the three bullet points.
- Thames Water unveils its second successful gas-to-grid project.
- Around 4000 homes in West London will be heated using converted sewage sludge from Mogden sewage treatment works starting early this year.
- This initiative is part of Thames Water’s commitment to reduce its carbon emissions across its operations thereby reducing its contribution to the causes of climate change.
These three paragraphs outline the project.
Thames Water has announced sewage sludge will be used to heat homes in West London early this year, after successfully delivering its second gas-to-grid (G2G) project, at its Mogden Sewage Treatment Works (STW).
The success of the gas-to-grid model established at Deephams STW in North London in 2021, where biogas is converted into biomethane to heat homes in Enfield, served as the blueprint for the project at Mogden.
Currently serving over 2 million customers, Mogden is the third largest STW in the UK, and has the potential to reach and supply gas to 4000 homes in West London. This comes as part of the company’s commitment on energy transition, by transforming the way it creates and uses power to reach net zero carbon emissions.
The press release then gives a paragraph of explanation as to how the system works.
A byproduct of the sewage treatment process is sewage sludge, which is then digested to produce BioGas. Mogden STW then generates electricity with this BioGas via Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engines. The Gas-to-Grid plant, which will be managed by gas supplier SGN, intends to take a proportion of this BioGas and to ‘uprate’ it to export quality which is achieved by filtering, scrubbing and then compressing gas so it can be used as fuel for cooking and heating.
This Thames Water graphic illustrates the process.
This press release is not Thames Water’s image from many of its customers.
The Anonymous Widower 
Well it would be nice to think that Thames Water did something more productive than releasing sewerage into rivers and water courses.
Comment by fammorris | January 26, 2024 |
The original press release was published on the 17th and I would have felt that it deserved a mention on the BBC London News. I picked it up as headlines in one of my Google Alerts.
Centrica, SSE and National Grid have certainly got their acts together on PR. Perhaps Thames haven’t learned how to balance the media. So all good things they do get automatically buried by editors.
There have been very few articles about the Thames Tideway Tunnel, which from what I can see is going well.
Comment by AnonW | January 26, 2024 |