Credit: Thames Water
Stephen has visited Thames Water’s treatment plant in Beckton.
The visit to the plant, which serves a population of four million across east London, was to see how sewage sludge could be used to produce biomethane as a source of energy to heat people’s homes.
This is in line with a government scheme to invest in new biomethane conversion plants to increase the ratio of “green gas” in the National Grid. The plant, however, is excluded from government funding to help produce environment-friendly “green gas” for the National Grid.
Thames Water plans to reduce the 250-acre site’s carbon emissions and to unlock benefits of energy conversion to heat 3,500 homes in the Beckton area.
Speaking after the visit, Stephen said “Thames Water raised important issues with me about government help for schemes of this kind,” the MP said. “I learned about plans to make biomethane sustainably and have written to the minister about them.”