Two organisations in Belfast have secured a combined £1.7 million from Westminster for biomass projects.
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute was awarded £1.5 million for an app called ‘EnviroCrops’ aimed at helping farmers to make informed decisions about planting perennial energy crops to optimise biomass choices for land.
Private company CATAGEN Ltd, which is directed by Queen’s University professor Robert Douglas, got £239,098 to develop a cost-effective method of producing low-carbon biohydrogen from waste biomass.