World’s biggest biomass plant approved for Wales

 

Woodchips could fuel electricity to homes.

Plans for a wood chip fuelled electricity generating plant in Port Talbot, south Wales, were approved yesterday by energy secretary John Hutton.
 
Due for completion in 2010, the £400m plant, developed by Prenergy, is forecast to deliver around 70 per cent of the Welsh Assembly’s 2010 renewable electricity target.
 
Continuous, base-load electricity is expected to be generated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the biomass plant to homes in Wales over its 25-year lifetime.

Powering half of Wales

Hutton told New Civil Engineer online: “This will be the biggest biomass plant in the world, generating enough clean electricity to power half of the homes in Wales. It joins eight major renewables projects already given the green light in the past 12 months alone and is another important step towards the low carbon economy envisaged by the Prime Minister."
 
The US and Canada are thought to be providing the wood fuel to the project.
 
Many of the latest renewable consents cleared by ministers at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, of which the Port Talbot plant is one, include six off shore wind farms, and a Wave Hub marine energy project.

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