Electricity produced from bioenergy has bounced back after production issues last year, with energy hitting 9.7TWh in the third quarter of 2024, waste-to-hydrogen company Compact Syngas Solutions has revealed.
Analysing government data, it found that maintenance outages at three large power stations were blamed for the fall in last year’s figures, explaining a 23% increase in electricity from bioenergy in Q3 of 2024.
Energy generated from plant biomass rose from 4.6TWh in the third quarter of 2023 to 6.3TWh in the same period this year.
And electricity generated from waste hit 1.31TWh in Q3 2024 – up from 1.27TWh at the same time last year.
Despite the growth, experts are warning that bottlenecks in the industry mean that alternative solutions are required.
Installed energy-to-waste capacity has grown by just 0.71% in the space of the year, rising from 1,547MW in the third quarter of 2023 to 1,558MW in the same period this year.
Compact Syngas Solutions, based in Deeside, Wales recently secured almost £4 million in government funding to make its biomass and waste-to-hydrogen plants even greener by using carbon capture.
UK biomass-generated energy increased by 36.9% in Q3 ’24
