Timber is to help power the 2012 Olympic Games, after the latest designs for the Olympic Park Energy Centre were unveiled.
The centre will include woodchip-fuelled biomass boilers and a combined cooling heat and power plant, and is designed to provide heating, cooling and power provisions during the Games and for post-2012 developments.
Craig White, chairman of the Wood for Gold campaign, said that he was “delighted” timber would have a role to play in powering the Olympics, as well as in its construction.
“Sustainability runs through this project and our energy centre plans will ensure the Games deliver the lasting legacy of a sustainable energy supply for this part of east London,” said Simon Wright, director of infrastructure and utilities at the Olympic Delivery Authority.
