Excess electricity from a showcase biomass plant on Merseyside is being sold to a renewable energy supplier.
Biomass Engineering Ltd has just started running its first full commercial biomass gasifier plant at Mossborough Hall. The hall’s owner, Will Heyes, estimates he will save around 750 tonnes of carbon dioxide from going into the atmosphere and will see a return on his investment in three to five years.
The plant, on a mixed use farm with a green waste licence, will be used to gasify chipped logs and clean waste wood.
Excess electricity will be sold to Green Energy UK plc whose finance director, Ramsay Dunning, said: “The EU has just this week announced a biomass action plan for the end of this year with increased use of this resource.
“There is an excellent market for this advanced technology, which we believe will grow significantly.”
Biomass Engineering plans to expand in the UK and put more business Green Energy UK’s way.
