Westpork have installed three Covered Anaerobic Pond systems, which supply the farm with renewable energy by using the Biogas harvested from the pond.

March 2025 saw the commissioning of Westpork's third Biogas system. The third system gives Westpork the capacity to move to 100% net renewable energy.

We are currently working through the regulatory framework to allow us to export power from this site and deliver on our core objective of 100% net renewable energy.

Biogas is a renewable energy source, created through a process called anaerobic disgestion, where organic waste is consumed by microbes which in turn release a gas, primarily made up of methane and carbon dioxide.

Effluent from our piggery flows into a covered pond, where the Biogas is produced, captured and refined into methane. This is used to run the generators and provide electricity for our site. Excess green, renewable electricity is sold back into the national grid.

Combusting the methane turns it into carbon dioxide, which has 1/25th of the impact as a greenhouse gas.