Severn Trent Water Growing power at Stoke Bardolph Severn Trent Water is now the proud owner of the plant which will generate over 15000MWh of electricity each year. Interserve’s build contract was valued at £12 million. Use of the anaerobic digestion process is already widespread in continental Europe, where nearly 300 operational plants have already been provided by Schmack Biogas, our process contractor specialist. Crop digestion plant: power generation from renewable sources The Stoke Bardolph estate covers 750 hectares, the majority of which is now used for growing maize. This farmland has been fertilized with sludge from the sewage works for more than 120 years and cannot be used to grow crops for human consumption. In 2007, Severn Trent identified an opportunity to grow maize on th

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