Dive Summary:

• A $306 million, 20-year project will collect 30 tons of fat waste a day, provide half the fuel for a fat-fuelled power plant, and solve the problem of restaurants pouring the fat into drains, causing 40,000 fat blockages in sewers every year.
• Thames Water joined utility company 20C to launch the world’s largest fat-fueled power plant which will produce 130 gigawatts of renewable electricity annually, help supply the National Grid, and power nearly 40,000 homes.
• The $107 million plant will launch in Beckton, East London in 2015.

From the article:
“Thirty tonnes a day of waste will be collected from leftover cooking oil supplies at eateries and manufacturers, fat traps in kitchens and pinchpoints in the sewers – enough to provide more than half the fuel the power plant will need to run. The rest of its fuel will come from waste vegetable oil and tallow (animal fats).”