FAW Bakers

FAW Bakers

FAW Bakers

FAW Bakers is a fourth-generation family dairy farm in Somerset, milking around 2,500 cows and employing 60 people. The farm runs a 484kW anaerobic digestion plant fuelled entirely by manure from its own herd, generating renewable electricity and, since 2024, biomethane for its tractor fleet.

FAW Bakers is a fourth-generation family dairy farm in Somerset, milking around 2,500 cows and employing 60 people. The farm runs a 484kW anaerobic digestion plant fuelled entirely by manure from its own herd, generating renewable electricity and, since 2024, biomethane for its tractor fleet.

£8k

paid out through P442, backdated

"The hard bit is looking after two and a half thousand cows, keeping them happy and healthy, staying ahead of disease. Making a bit of electricity out of their shit is quite easy, really."

"The hard bit is looking after two and a half thousand cows, keeping them happy and healthy, staying ahead of disease. Making a bit of electricity out of their shit is quite easy, really."

"The hard bit is looking after two and a half thousand cows, keeping them happy and healthy, staying ahead of disease. Making a bit of electricity out of their shit is quite easy, really."

P442 paid out. No chasing.

P442 paid out. No chasing.

P442 paid out. No chasing.

P442 backdated, no chasing

P442 gives generators on RED+ an additional benefit on each unit they export. When tem backdated that benefit, it calculated what FAW Bakers had accrued and paid out roughly £8,000, without Neil needing to request it.

Straight into the next farm upgrade

FAW Bakers is putting the P442 payment toward a new feed system, expected to lift gas output by 25% and free up capacity to export more electricity beyond what the farm uses itself.

Locked in before the market dropped

FAW Bakers renewed at 12.7p per kWh from October 2026. Prices for anything locked in beyond October 2027 have since fallen to around 10p, so the earlier renewal is protecting the farm from that drop rather than exposing it to it.

Money back, feeder funded, and the easy part stays easy

Money back, feeder funded, and the easy part stays easy

Money back, feeder funded, and the easy part stays easy

FAW Bakers didn't ask for the P442 payout. The roughly £8,000 backdated payment is going straight into a new feed system expected to lift gas output by 25%. None of it pulls Neil away from the cows, which remain the hard part of the job. (edited)

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