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As our conversation draws to a close, David turns his attention to both the future of the industry and of the business itself.“ 2025 is an exciting year for WASE, as we’ re going to be raising our Series A investment round to help us accelerate our growth and technology deployment in the UK and US,” he reveals.“ With this comes a large amount of investment in our science and laboratory capabilities, along with investment in larger manufacturing facilities and a bigger team to support our growth. Commercially, we are going to be starting a few more projects with various companies in the food and beverage space, and we look forward to publishing these case studies and unlocking both cost and carbon savings for these partners.
“ From a wider perspective, I see the biggest challenge to achieving global energy transition as reliance on the short-term nature of our political leadership, as long-term thinking is required for sustainable investments. Also, I believe circularity is a far more powerful message than Net Zero, as many people don’ t understand what Net Zero is. However, shifting the focus to a global circular economy where wastewater is eliminated is a much easier message to spread awareness of in the market!”
Speaking about WASE specifically, David concludes:“ We’ re planning to expand our technology portfolio over the next few years to offer retrofittable electro-methanogenic reactors for installation into existing anaerobic digestion plants. This could help the global biogas market increase its energy supply by up to 20 percent without having to develop any new sites, and this is something I am personally really excited about bringing to the market. Our vision is that by 2030, WASE will be treating more than 50 million meters cubed of wastewater per year, generating 2.2 terawatt hours of biomethane and saving more than one million tons of CO 2 per year.” ■ wase. co. uk newenergy-today. com 97