Using anaerobic digestion, the venture will in turn produce 10,000 MWh of thermal power, enough to heat 800 homes per year.
Wensleydale Creamery, UK, partnered with Iona Capital, a UK-based environmental fund manager, to produce over 10,000 MWh of energy per year from a byproduct of cheesemaking.
The new feedstock agreement will see Iona’s Leeming Biogas plant in North Yorkshire process whey permeate, a byproduct produced during the manufacturing of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, and turn it into nearly 1 million cubic meters of green gas. Using anaerobic digestion, the venture will in turn produce 10,000 MWh of thermal power, enough to heat 800 homes per year.