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Hydrogen: Waste Disposal

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 13 October 2025UIN 77268

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the full scope is of Project Cavendish.

Answered by Luke Pollard

Project CAVENDISH will commence in October 2025 and seeks to trial novel wastewater treatment technology on an Ministry of Defence (MOD) site. It will assess the feasibility and viability of net-positive energy sewage treatment on UK MOD sites in the United Kingdom and abroad. It will trial commercially available Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC) technology to treat sewage wastewater, produce energy-positive hydrogen and clean effluent.

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