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Biochar CleanTech Accelerator - Sustainability Innovator Of The Year ‘Highly Commended’ winners at Innovation Awards 2025
Latest News: FuturEnergy signs contract with WF Recycle-Tech to deliver 1.5T/hr commercial tyre pyrolysis plant Biochar CleanTech Accelerator - Sustainability Innovator Of The Year ‘Highly Commended’ winners at Innovation Awards 2025
Delivering Net Zero Through Local Biomass
Managing Local Biomass Streams More Effectively
County councils are responsible for managing a wide range of biomass and biogenic waste streams, including green waste, park and verge arisings, wood waste, highway maintenance residues, and food-related biogenic fractions. PyroFlex provides councils with a way to convert these materials into useful local energy and products, reducing reliance on landfill, long-distance transport, and external treatment facilities. This supports waste hierarchy objectives by prioritising recovery and value creation over disposal or low value composting.
Supporting Government Decarbonisation Targets
When operated on organic feedstocks, PyroFlex delivers measurable lifecycle emissions reductions through fossil fuel displacement and long-term carbon storage in biochar. This aligns with national and local government commitments on net zero, carbon budgets, and climate action plans. PyroFlex provides councils with a practical, auditable pathway to demonstrate progress toward statutory and policy targets without relying solely on grid decarbonisation or offsets.
Local, Low-Carbon Energy for Public Assets
PyroFlex enables councils to produce dispatchable, low-carbon heat, cooling, or electricity from locally sourced biomass. This energy can be used to support public buildings, leisure centres, schools, depots, care facilities, district heating networks, or electric vehicle infrastructure. By generating energy locally, councils can reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, improve energy resilience, and reduce exposure to volatile energy markets—directly supporting net-zero and energy security strategies.
Biochar for Land Management and Carbon Sequestration
Biochar produced by PyroFlex can be returned to land for long-term carbon sequestration, supporting council-owned farmland, parks, green spaces, and land remediation projects. Biochar can also contribute to soil improvement, water retention, and land resilience, depending on application and site conditions. This creates a closed-loop approach in which local biomass supports both emissions reduction and land management outcomes.
Enabling Circular Economy and Local Economic Value
PyroFlex supports a circular economy approach at county level, keeping material value within the local area. Councils can use PyroFlex projects to support local jobs, skills development, and regional supply chains, while demonstrating leadership in sustainable infrastructure. These projects can also act as anchor assets within wider decarbonisation, heat network, or regeneration programmes.
Strengthening Public Engagement and Accountability
Visible local infrastructure that converts waste into energy and climate benefit can play an important role in public engagement, education, and transparency. PyroFlex projects offer councils a tangible demonstration of climate action, helping to build public trust while meeting reporting and accountability requirements.
A Flexible, Scalable Public-Sector Solution
PyroFlex is designed as a modular and scalable platform, allowing councils to start at a manageable scale and expand as feedstock availability, energy demand, or policy priorities evolve. This flexibility makes PyroFlex well suited to public-sector procurement models, phased investment strategies, and multi-stakeholder delivery frameworks.
