A 65MW biomass power station is to be built in Lincolnshire that could produce enough energy to power the equivalent of about 100,000 homes.
The station, to be built by Helius Energy at Stallingborough, will initially be fuelled by waste wood, specially grown crops and wood waste from timber processing activities in the UK and Europe.
Planning permission has also been granted to build a biomass processing facility and bio-ethanol and bio-diesel refinery. The intention is that spent grains from the bio-ethanol plant and glycerol from the bio-diesel plant will eventually be used as the fuel feedstock for the power station.
Construction will be phased with the power station built first. The development will also include an area of around 20 hectares specifically set aside for birds and water voles.
The processing plant will produce around 250,000 tonnes of bio-ethanol and 100,000 tonnes of bio-diesel a year to be used for transport.
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