Ecotricity has announced it is to develop a third Green Gas Mill, a new green energy site in Somerset, that will generate enough green gas from grass to power up to 2,500 homes.
Britain's leading green energy company, launched its first Green Gas Mill project in Gloucestershire back in April, with a second announced in Hampshire, while a fourth is also due to be unveiled before the end of the year.
Green Gas Mills will make gas from grass using a process called Anaerobic Digestion; before feeding green gas, or biomethane, directly into the national grid to replace fossil fuel gas.
Not only is the gas carbon neutral, but the process supports food production, improves land quality, ensures wildlife habitats are created, and financially assists local farmers who supply the grass.1
Dale Vince, Ecotricity founder, said: "We are at the beginning of a revolution in gas, not from fracking but from farms; there's a whole new industry waiting to be created here, meaning more jobs and plenty of economic benefits.
"We can't continue using gas from fossil fuels, we are running out and causing climate change; the great thing about green gas, like green electricity, is we can still live the way we're used to, but we can do so in a sustainable way.
"Making green gas from grass doesn't compete with food production, it actually supports it and the farmers working the land. It also helps wildlife, creating new habitats and there's enough non-food producing farmland in Britain in principal to meet 95% of the gas we need this way.
"The strength of public opposition to fracking is crystal clear, and it's only increasing as well as the significant environmental and health impacts, it's just an unnecessary risk which we can avoid entirely by pursuing Green Gas."
1 Grass for each Green Gas Mill is sourced from non-food producing land within 10 miles of each plant. Anaerobic Digestion produces a natural fertiliser that will go back onto the fields to improve the soil.
