Cheshire West & Chester Councillors last night voted in favour of granting planning permission for Peel Energy’s proposed 20MW biomass energy plant at Ince Park, Cheshire. The plant will be capable of generating the equivalent amount of electricity used by 37,000 homes and supply renewable heat and steam to local industry. It will utilise around 175,000 tonnes of waste wood each year.
Jon Burley of Peel Energy said, “We would like to thank the council for giving the plans a fair hearing. We realise that applications like these are not easy. However, these are exactly the kind of decisions that are required if the UK is to meet its renewable energy targets and avoid valuable resources going into landfill.
“We are very pleased with the outcome and look forward to taking the project on to the next stage, ultimately delivering renewable energy and jobs for the region. We are also keen to continue our dialogue with community groups via the Ince Park Community Forum as we have done throughout the application process.”
The two-year construction of the plant could begin in 2012 meaning that the plant would be making a substantial contribution to regional targets by 2014.
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Notes to Editors
Peel Energy
Peel Energy is at the forefront of delivering low carbon energy for the UK, we have a balanced portfolio of more than 3 gigawatts in generation or development including wind, tidal and hydro power, biomass and multi-fuel power plants with carbon capture and storage, that's enough to power the average electricity needs of the 3 million homes in North West England. Or put another way, that's enough for every home in the city regions of Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester combined.
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Peel Energy is a division of The Peel Group, one of the leading infrastructure, real estate and investment enterprises in the UK. Our diverse network of businesses ranges from ports to airports; land to leisure; media to hotels; wind farms to shopping centres, and a portfolio of investments in major public companies.
Ince Park
The 126 acre Ince Park development will be a joint venture between Peel Environmental and Covanta Energy that will bring investment of over £500 million to the North West, creating in excess of 1,000 long-term sustainable jobs in the resource management sector. The projects greenheart will be the Peel Energy biomass facility and Covanta’s 95MW EfW facility which, together, will provide heat and power to the wide range of new recycling and resource management businesses that will locate on the site.
For further information please visit www.incepark.com
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