Standard Gas raises £17.6m to push forward energy-from-waste tech

The company is also in the process of launching Carbon Char Store, its newly formed carbon removals sales and marketing arm.

In a statement, David Whitmarsh, Standard Gas' CEO said: “Having previously raised £30m to develop and prove our technology, this new investment is enabling us to move into a phase of full-scale commercial manufacture and onto licensing of our SG100 technology. We’re already in advanced discussions with sector-leading global companies interested in buying our plants or our power, licensing our technology, or in partnering for renewable transport fuels, hydrogen production, and potentially replacement fuels. We are seeing similar responses to our Carbon Char Store, which will market and sell our carbon removals.”

Standard Gas’ SG100 Advanced Thermal Cracking technology transforms a range of non-recyclable and hazardous wastes into syngas and biochar. Tar-free, the company’s syngas, which achieved End of Waste certification from the UK’s Environment Agency, can be used to generate electricity and heat, or processed via methanation into transportation fuels, chemical feedstock or for injection into the grid. Coupled with electrolysis or via reformation, the SG100 can reportedly generate between 650 tonnes and 3,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year. The co-product biochar captures and removes carbon when used in sequestering applications such as soil enhancer or as a construction aggregate.