Carbon Negative Household Energy through Pyrolysis

This project will test the financial and operational sustainability of generating carbon-negative electricity and supplying it to Bromford Housing at below market rates, tackling both climate change and fuel poverty. Pyrolysis allows carbon in organic feedstocks (such as woody biomass, sewage sludge or arboreal risings) to be sequestered, thereby resulting in carbon negative heat. This project will be a first-of-a-kind system in the UK and will demonstrate how waste heat energy can be converted to electricity and exported to the grid in a cost-effective manner. 

The project will purchase the capital equipment necessary to run the trial period to prove the concept. Optimising the running of the plant with reduced associated costs, exploring combined models of electricity output, carbon credits, and biochar sales. Alongside this they will run a research study to design the legal structures for the distribution of the energy to fuel poor households.