Welsh Water Invests £250m to Produce Green Energy

Welsh Water is investing £250m to help produce its own energy needs and cut its £44m annual utility bill.

Welsh Water, Five Fords

It has agreed the figure in a loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to cover some of its investment costs.

It is investing £36m to harness solar and hydro power at Five Fords, Marchwiel.

The company said it was also developing an advanced anaerobic digestion plant on the site, which will use waste to generate enough energy to supply about 3,000 homes.

Welsh Water, which serves Wales and Herefordshire, generates 20% of its own energy needs through wind, hydro, solar and anaerobic digestion technology.

It said the majority of its power was spent on pumping water and waste water through thousands of miles of pipes.

It has pledged to invest £1.7bn in its businesses between 2015-2020.

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1. The anaerobic does not exist on Earth, the anaerobic cannot exist on our planet

   The anaerobic is a simple view of the mind of a person who discovered a State of putrefaction advanced, quite incomprehensible to him, whom he named as opposed to an aerobic State anaerobic.
   At this time we only discovered the aerobic State and the scientific community welcomed his vision of opposition.
   Except that the following elements contradict this approach:
   Water, H2O contains oxygen. Where there is water there is therefore necessarily oxygen. Even if there is a 0.001%.
   The atmosphere is totally aerobic at several levels of its layer or it has been shown that there was life and in proportion. 21% on Earth, and decrease gradually and as we climb in altitude.
   Those who speak of the anaerobic describe a medium often inaccessible and distant in the most remote places of our planet, there or it is of course impossible to check.
   Some describe this environment in purification of wastewater.
   Except that it is hard to admit that where there is water in aerobic condition with oxygen, can settle an anaerobic State without oxygen.
   How is this medium for foothold?
   How does this environment persist?
   What is the trigger for creation of this State?
   How and which would be able to delineate in oxygen aerobic environments, the component of the safety barrier of the aerobic State, of the anaerobic State in a liquid in motion?
   By the principle of the existing atmospheric conditions on Earth, water and air are in perpetual motion. Because of this principle oxygen is regenerated continuously even in the remotest corners of our land.