JLEN to expand AD plant bought last year

John Laing Environmental Assets Group Ltd (LON:JLEN) today said it will invest GBP 8.5 million (USD 11.3m/EUR 9.7m) to expand the biomethane generating capacity of the Vulcan Renewables anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.

The UK environmental infrastructure investment fund acquired the facility, located in South Yorkshire, England, in August 2017. Completed in 2013, the AD plant has a capacity of 5 MWth and mainly produces biomethane. It also has a 0.5-MWe combined heat and power (CHP) engine and is accredited under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) schemes.

Th extension project will convert the existing storage tank to a primary digester and will also provide for separate digestate storage and install an additional biomethane upgrading unit. It will be implemented by Future Biogas, the current service provider at the Vulcan site.

The building works are expected to be completed in late 2019 and not to cause significant downtime at the plant.

"We are pleased with our initial investments in the anaerobic digestion sector, and this expansion project is a good opportunity to build out our capability at the Vulcan Renewables AD plant," said JLEN chairman Richard Morse.

(GBP 1 = EUR 1.329/EUR 1.140)

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