The Creed Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF), UK
Company: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council)
Country: United Kingdom, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
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The Creed Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF), located just outside Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, is owned and operated by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (CnES), the Local Authority for the Western Isles. Current features of the site include an anaerobic digester (AD), combined heat and power plant (CHP), electric boiler and thermal store, a wind turbine and a
hydrogen system comprising electrolyser, storage and refuelling station. Biogas produced from the waste in the AD is used to fuel the existing on-site CHP. Some of the electricity generated by the CHP is sent to a hydrogen system to produce hydrogen and oxygen.