Selby Renewable Energy Park gets the go-ahead to build anaerobic digestion plant

20 July 2009

Selby Renewable Energy Park has been granted planning permission by North Yorkshire County Council to build the UK’s largest anaerobic digestion plant in Selby.

The £20m plant will generate 8MW of energy, enough to power 10,800 homes a year, and will have a capacity to treat 165,000 tonnes of food waste per year which would otherwise have been sent to landfill sites.

The proposal has already won the support of the government backed Future Energy Yorkshire, which is the organisation set up to help promote renewable energy projects in Yorkshire and Humber.

Shaun Flynn, business development manager, said, ‘We’re delighted to have been granted planning permission to build the UK’s largest anaerobic digestion plant and provide a sustainable alternative to landfill for food waste as well as contribute towards the governments renewable energy targets. Anaerobic Digestion is widely recognised by the government, DEFRA and Friends of the Earth as one of the best solutions for disposing of food waste. Everyone wins as the waste is treated in a sealed process reducing the generation of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions; a clean, renewable fuel is produced which can be used to create electricity and heat; and we are returning a green, sustainable fertiliser to the land which will in turn grow our crops for food.’

Following the go-ahead, construction is expected to get underway in September and become operational in 2010.

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