Planning approval has been granted for a new waste wood processing plant that will serve the biomass industry.
Hampshire County Council has given the go-ahead to the £4 million facility in Fareham, which will thermally treat wood, providing two megawatts of electricity per hour for the National Grid, edie.net reports.
Up to 25,000 tonnes of waste wood from the surrounding area will pass through the site on its way to biomass burning facilities.
The company in charge of the project, L&S Waste Management, now hopes that the plant will be up and running by the summer of 2012.
"It's very encouraging that Hampshire County Council are looking to the future and seeing the benefit to the community of sustainable, renewable energy plants," managing director Mick Balch told the news provider.
A new biomass plant at Rothes in Speyside will use by-products from the whisky distillation process to generate renewable energy.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the biomass industry includes:
Conveyors – screw conveyors – chain conveyors – belt conveyors
