Owen Yeatman
340kW anaerobic digestion plant
Dorset
It’s not just breakfast tables that are supplied by Owen Yeatman’s 400 head Dorset dairy herd; thanks to the farm’s 340kW anaerobic digestion plant their manure – along with poultry manure from a neighbour’s chicken farm and some apple pomace from a local cider producer – generates enough electricity to power around 450 homes in the UK.

“Provenance has been a big deal for UK farmers for a long time,” says Owen. “The Red Tractor logo was a huge step forward. It guarantees that the food you’re buying comes from British farms and meets our high standards of food safety, hygiene, animal welfare and environmental protection. The same thing goes for energy. If people are buying their electricity from Good Energy they know they’re supporting a 100% renewable supplier that is genuinely green. If you buy from any other supplier it’s possible only a small percentage of their electricity will be renewable.”