Moor Bioenergy Ltd

Overview

Nestled just off the A1 only a few miles from Grantham, Moor Bioenergy is Future Biogas’ latest flagship anaerobic digestion facilities. Covering just over 5 hectares in the heart of the Lincolnshire countryside, Moor bioenergy is the first unsubsidised biomethane plant ever built in the UK.

Development Story

Development of the site began in 2023 with a clear ambition: to deliver clean, domestically-produced renewable gas for AstraZeneca while working in partnership with local farmers, planners, and the rural community. Since the start, the site has been shaped by Future Biogas’ core principles — circularity, land stewardship, and energy resilience.

Technology & Infrastructure

The site includes:

• Two flat roofed primary digesters and one domed post-digester, each engineered for long-term performance
• Silage clamps designed to store around half the annual crop feedstock, ensuring steady year-round operation
• A covered and sealed digestate store along with integrated reed bed systems for runoff and surface water retention
• CO₂ Capture and BECCS Readiness

Moor Bioenergy is the first of Future Biogas’s sites equipped to capture the biogenic CO₂ produced through the digestion process. In the future, this CO₂ could be permanently stored in geological wells in an approach known as Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). This process transforms the site into a future source of negative emissions — going beyond net zero to deliver genuine climate impact. Until this geological storage becomes available, the CO2 will be tankered offsite and used in industrial processes such as food and beverage production displacing internationally produced CO2 derived from fossil fuels.

Community & Environment

Beyond energy generation, Moor Bioenergy is a contributor to the local rural economy. It creates skilled jobs, provides a new market for rotational crops, and returns nutrient-rich digestate to local farmland — enhancing soil health and reducing the need for synthetic fertilisers.

Planned on and off-site planting schemes, including hedgerows and native tree belts, ensure the facility remains visually unobtrusive while improving biodiversity and habitat connectivity in the local area.

As part of our commitment to be good neighbours, we’ve set up a community fund to support local community projects within the wider Grantham area and fund projects such as bench installations in wildlife areas or installing a solar powered speed indicators in local streets. If you have a local project and would like to apply for funding, please contact community.funds@futurebiogas.com.