Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (“BIG”) announced that one of its largest assets in the UK, Ince Bio Power, has become fully operational after successfully completing its testing phase. The BIG-owned facility, which is located near Ellesmere Port in Ince, Cheshire, is the largest plant of its kind operating in the UK, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
Ince Bio Power, which will receive its official opening in summer 2019, uses waste wood to generate low carbon energy. Each year, it will process up to 170,000 tonnes of waste wood, converting this fuel into 21.5MW of electricity, enough to power over 40,000 homes. The plant will deliver a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions worth around 65,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum, the equivalent of taking more than 40,000 cars off the road.
Around 150 jobs were created during the construction of Ince Bio Power. The plant will be operated and managed by about 25 full-time employees.
In addition to Ince, BIG also owns and operates operational energy from waste wood biomass plants in Birmingham, Northern Ireland and Widnes. Other assets in BIG’s portfolio that are in the late stages of construction and development are located in Hull, Lanark in Scotland and Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire.
Bioenergy Infrastructure Group is an independent power producer specialising in energy-from-waste and biomass.
