Sewage Treatment

Northumbrian Water creates fuel from flatulence next stage in revolutionary 'power from poo' work

Three years after Northumbrian Water first used its sewage sludge to generate electricity a new £8m project is set to inject the vapours from a £35m ‘anaerobic digester’ on Tyneside direct into the national gas grid.

Process engineer Tony Rutherford, who has worked on the project to harness the wondrous wind, said it would bring a new extra efficient source of renewable energy to to region.