A new waste to energy biomass power plant has been given the approval for construction at a disused site at Tilbury Docks in Essex. The power plant will be fuelled by a combination of waste and biomass products and is expected to have a capacity of producing 60MW of electricity. The biomass portion of the [...]
The ocean floor in the waters off the Orkney Islands in Scotland is about to become a location for the latest wave power device that has been developed by the Scottish company aquamarine power. Called the Oyster, this wave power device gives a hydroelectric wave energy converter which is able to use the ocean waves [...]
The proposed Wave Hub project that was announced late in 2008 and is planned for siting off the coast of Cornwall has just taken an important step forward in becoming a reality when the official green light to proceed was given by the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA).
The Wave Hub project still has a [...]
The British Government has given its consent for the £500m Tees Renewable Energy Plant which will be a biomass power plant with an expected capacity of 296MW. The plant will be located in Teesport and will produce enough electricity to power around 600,000 homes.
This makes the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, when it is brought online [...]
The first geothermal power plant in the UK is being planned for development in Cornwall using hot rocks. The Cornwall Geothermal Project will be constructed by EGS Energy, a renewable power company focused on engineered geothermal power and will use granite outcrops near the earth’s surface for the heat to generate electricity.
This geothermal power plant [...]
An £80m straw-powered biomass power plant has been proposed by renewable energy developer Eco2 and planning permission has been granted to allow the company to go ahead in Lincolnshire. What it means is that the possibility for more straw-powered plants to be constructed around the country depending on the success of this first one.
Sleaford in [...]
