New plans have been announced by energy giant E.ON to invest around £300 million in a new biomass power plant 12km from Bristol.
The biomass power plant will be called the Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant and is expected to have a maximum capacity to produce 150MW which would be enough electricity to power 200,000 homes. [...]
Since 2007 there have been plans by Farm Energy in Britain to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm, to be known as the Atlantic Array. The wind farm would consist of 350 wind turbines capable of generating a maximum capacity 1,500MW of electricity and would be sited off the coast of Devon. Total coast [...]
Testing of a new wave energy device is about to begin off the East Anglian coast in England. Six miles off the coast of Southwold a year long trial of a machine that is currently known as Trident Energy 3 will take place.
The company behind the trial is Trident Energy, an Essex-based company. They are [...]
North East Lincolnshire, England is going to have a new 65MW biomass power plant thanks to the approval that has been granted for Helius Energy plc to proceed with construction. The power plant will be built in Stallingborough on the south side of the Humber estuary.
It will be part of a proposed bioenergy development with [...]
A proposal for what will be one of UK’s largest biomass power plants has been given the go-ahead by energy minister Malcolm Wicks. The power plant is to be sited in Lincolnshire near Stallingborough and is a project headed by Helius Energy plc and is expected to cost £200m to build.
The facility will be capable [...]
Offshore wind projects are beginning to emerge with increasing frequency as technology is beginning to find ways to overcome the problems and costs. Only recently we heard that the London Array Project was setback by the withdrawal of Shell WindEnergy, but there was some good news about another offshore wind power project today.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) [...]
