Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a major contract to build a new major bioresource processing facility to process circa 85,000 tonnes dry solids (tds) Per Annum at a location in the central belt of Scotland worth up to an estimated £415 million.

Scottish Water has issued a Periodic Indicative Notice to launch an early market engagement initiative for the construction of a major bioresource processing facility with an estimated value of up to £285 million.

Scottish Water‘s Seafield waste water treatment works has reached a renewable energy milestone - the works now generates more power than it needs to operate.

If we took a short trip forward in time to 2040, and then looked back at how some organisations in the water industry successfully achieved Carbon Net Zero, it’s likely you’ll see a large four-letter word: NIGG.

A waste water treatment process which maximises the production of biogas has helped a Scottish Water site in Aberdeen to transform its carbon footprint and start exporting energy to the national grid.

Severn Trent Water has applied to the Environment Agency to vary its existing environmental permit for its Stoke Bardolph Sewage Treatment Works – enabling it to construct a new thermal hydrolysis plant (THP), associated combustion/thermal plant and biogas upgrade plant. 

Landia chopper pumps have played a key role in Severn Trent’s recent upgrade of twelve anaerobic digesters at its Minworth Sewage Treatment Works.

Scotland’s largest waste water treatment works at Seafield which processes 300 million litres of waste water every day is this month celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Veolia, the global resource management company, is now helping Scottish Water to achieve the target of energy self-sufficiency at its Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW), the largest treatment works in the east of Scotland. 

Work is progressing on Severn Trent’s cutting edge Thermal Hydrolysis Plant (THP) at its biggest sewage treatment works in Minworth near Birmingham – when complete the plant will move the water company closer to its target of generating 50% of its self-generation  energy target by 2020.