The €50 million Huntstown bioenergy plant will generate up to 4.8 megawatt to hour of renewable electricity from Dublin’s waste, Energia’s website claims. The Irish energy group, owned by US private equity firm I Squared Capital, acquired CEHL (Dublin) Bioenergy Limited and its subsidiary Huntstown Bioenergy Limited, from Donegal-based Connective Energy Holdings in May 2018.  The ambitious plan was to enter into a contract to build a state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion plant to process up to 100,000 tonnes of organic waste, such as food waste, from Dublin annually to convert it into green renewable electricity. When fully operational the bioenergy plant…

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