ENERGOS wins planning consent for Merseyside energy recovery facility

News Source : Energ.co.uk

ENERGOS has gained planning approval for a clean technology energy recovery from waste facility at Knowsley, Merseyside.

 The £40million plus development will be a UK and international training centre and an environmental technology showcase for the UK company’s advanced gasification process – attracting visitors from all over the world.

It will take two years to build and construction is expected to start in 2010 with completion scheduled for 2012. ENERGOS will create up to 65 local construction jobs and 18 skilled ‘green collar’ jobs and aims to set up a technician training programme  with local colleges.

The facility will convert leftover, non-recyclable waste into green electricity for up to 10,000 homes, as well as creating heat for local industry – leading to lower energy bills and carbon emissions for business and increasing job security. It will create a similar renewable power output to 15 large wind turbines.

In Europe, ENERGOS offers the only proven and commercially viable gasification technology capable of generating renewable energy from municipal waste and post-recycling residue. It provides a best practice alternative to mass-burn incineration and a commercially proven and bankable alternative to

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ENERGOS uses its own patented gasification technology, an advanced two-stage thermal treatment process that converts residual, non-recyclable waste into a gas by using the heat of partial combustion to liberate the hydrogen and carbon within the waste. Residual waste is fed into the gasification chamber, where it is manufactured into a syngas. This syngas is then transferred to a secondary oxidation chamber where it is fully combusted in a controlled environment that enables much tighter control than can be achieved in conventional energy from waste plants – resulting in extremely low emissions. The resulting heat energy is used to produce steam, which can be used to supply renewable heat and/or electricity.

On the Isle of Wight, ENERGOS has recently opened the UK’s first fully developed gasification plant to operate on a municipal waste stream. This is the first time that advanced thermal conversion technology has been applied in this way. It is part of the Department of Environment, food and Rural Affair’s New Technology Demonstrator Programme and received a 2008 Renewable Energy Award for Innovation

Said Nick Dawber, Managing Director of ENERGOS: “We look forward to making a positive contribution to the Knowsley community and can now begin detailed discussions with neighbouring businesses to supply affordable, secure heat energy from a renewable source.  This will enable them to keep costs controlled, reduce their carbon footprint and maintain their competitive edge and job security.”

Dawber added: “This is a community sized solution for local waste that would otherwise fill up landfill sites and emit damaging greenhouse gases. We offer a proven and world class gasification technology with a 12 year track record of safe operation in Norway. This can help the UK build a much needed sustainable waste infrastructure. The ENERGOS process is proven to achieve ultra low emissions that are significantly lower than the stringent safe limits required by the EU Emissions Standard.

Over the last three years, five planning applications, based on the ENERGOS technology, have been submitted and all five have received consent within 12 months of the application date. We believe this demonstrates that communities accept facilities that are appropriately sized.

“In Knowsley we have organised open days and set up a community liaison group to allay concerns and involve residents in our plans and we are totally committed to working openly with the community to bring new jobs, new skills and valuable investment to the area.“