Approximately 50% of the energy generated would be classed as renewable....
The proposed main building employs a curved roof which rises from 34 metres to a maximum 46 metres above ground floor level, to house the specialist processing machinery. The overall footprint of the proposed HPW designed buildings will be approximately 1.5 hectares.
Benefits:
- The generation of 50 MW (megawatts) of badly needed dependable electricity generation for the local grid, delivering the equivalent of the annual average consumption in 90,000 homes.
- The opportunity to recover electrical energy from pre-treated and processed industrial and household refuse which would otherwise be disposed of into landfill sites or even sent to Europe for power generation there.
- Approximately 50% of the energy generated would be classed as renewable.
- 350 jobs will be created during the three-year construction phase and 40 full time posts over the operational lifetime of 25 years or more.
- Substantial indirect employment and investment in transport, training, and other support industries
- Expected contribution to the Local Authority, through business rates, of £1.5m+ per annum
- Investment of significant, privately sourced capital expenditure, worth £170m, in a disadvantaged region - without the need for any government or other public subsidies or grants.
The planning application is expected to be submitted to North East Lincolnshire Council by early 2018.
