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| Article Date: | 01/10/2009
| | Article Title: | Green light given for World’s largest biomass plant |
One step further forward may have been achieved for the environment yesterday as the UK’s Environment Agency permitted the progression of Britain’s largest biomass power plant to go ahead.
The plant has been given initial planning approval from UK regulators before in 2007 but was held back by a lengthy environmental evaluation processes and discussions with the local community.
The bio mass power station, called the Prenergy plant, in Port Talbot, South Wales, is to use wood chips that come from sustainable sources to produce enough electricity to power 500,000 Welsh homes at an estimated cost of £400 million ($643.72 million).
“In the future, we would like to see all biomass developers meet the high standards that have been set by Prenergy,” said Tony Grayling, the Environment Agency’s head of climate change and sustainable development, in a news release.
The plant is expected to produce electricity with 50 percent to 80 percent less carbon dioxide emissions than gas or coal fired power stations.
Permitting from the Environment Agency is intended to ensure that the plant meets environmental standards, including not having a measurable impact on local air quality.
In July, a similar project received the green light from the UK government. UK-based MGT Power received the OK to build a £500 million ($821.4 million), 295 MW biomass plant. The power station is expected to be built at Teesport, a large sea port in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and North Yorkshire county, in northeast England (MGT Power moves forward on 295 MW biomass plant).
Source: Cleantech group 30.09.09
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