TEG completes £21m Dagenham plant

TEG, the Lancashire energy-from-waste specialist, has completed a £21m organic waste facility in Dagenham, east London.

The facility, the first anaerobic digestion energy plant to be constructed in the central London, will process 50,000 tonnes of food and green waste a year at the Mayor of London’s 60-acre London Sustainable Industries Park.

It will generate some 1.4 MW of electricity, enough to power 2,000 homes, and also produce thousands of tonnes of compost for agricultural use.

Foresight Group , a specialist recycling and green energy investor, has raised the full capital required to fund the facility, through a special purpose vehicle called TEG Biogas (London) of which TEG has taken a 24.5% stake.

TEG’s chief executive Mick Fishwick said: “I am delighted to see the Dagenham plant completed on time and on budget and that it has now been passed across to its owners. This project once again demonstrates TEG’s ability to take a plant from the drawing board to full commercial production and we look forward to operating and maintaining the plant for the coming 15 years, while we continue to develop and build further UK based IVC and AD plants.”

TEG’s maintenance contract is worth at least £1.3m a year.