SUNDAY CRESENT13 Oct 2013 10:50
Plant Approved in Yorkshire
Planning permission has been granted for Peel Environmental's combined heat and power (CHP) biogas plant which will use anaerobic digestion to process 60,000 tonne per year of food waste in Wheldrake, Yorkshire.
The Manchester, UK based waste treatment infrastructure developer said that consent for its North Selby Anaerobic Digestion and Horticultural Glasshouse facility, which will be located on the former North Selby Mine site, was granted by the City of York Council.
According to the company the £23.5 million project will use the process treat organic commercial and industrial waste and produce 1.5 MW of heat and up to 2.75 MW of electricity - enough energy to power around 3500 homes.
Peel went on to explain that some of the heat produced by the facility will be used to heat a horticultural glasshouse, which will be developed alongside and operated by Howden-based specialist Plant Raisers to propagate mainly tomato plants.
The plant is expected to produce up to 30,000 tonnes of digestate each year, which the company said could be used by local farmers as a biofertiliser.
The electricity generated is expected to be used both by the glasshouse and exported to the National Grid via an existing on-site connection.
According to Peel, once complete the facility will provide 20,000 tonnes per year of carbon savings compared to sending the waste to landfill - greater than the levels of CO2 produced by City of York Council.
The company added that the facility will provide an economic boost to the area, providing up to 256 jobs during construction and 56 full time positions and 50 seasonal positions during operation, with the impact of these in the region of £2.2 million Gross Value Added (GVA) per year. It will also facilitate the expansion of Plant Raisers - a successful Yorkshire business.
"As we look to bring forward other sites for the co-location of waste infrastructure, it is encouraging to see that the value of what we are trying to achieve in terms of developing mixed-use sites with waste infrastructure development at their core has been recognised," explained Myles Kitcher, a director at Peel Environmental.
"As a developer bringing forward merchant facilities, we are confident that we can quickly get this scheme off the ground and into operation," he added.
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