A combined heat and electricity plant powered by rubbish is set to be built near Chester in a bid to reduce the amount of rubbish put into landfills.
Peel Environmental will build the Ince Resource Recovery Park on a 100-hectare site near the village of Ince, treating the waste as “a valuable resource rather than a costly problem helping to deal with global warming”.
One half of the land will house a 95 mega watt Refuse Derived Fuel Power Plant, Environmental Technologies Complex (ETC) and Integrated Waste Management Facilities (IWMF) all linked by an internal rail network.
The remaining part of the low-lying land will be used for nature conservation and to enhance wildlife habitats and.
Energy generated by the plant will be used to power the park site and feed into the national grid. Composting, recycling and waste management will be done at the IWMF. The ETC will offer other firms smaller plots for building plants that use refuse for power generation.
The project is slated to reduce the annual amount of waste put into landfills by 600,000 tonnes.
