Air Products has secured planning permission for its Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility. The 49MW advanced gasification energy from waste scheme, located near Billingham on Teesside will convert pre-processed household and commercial waste currently going to landfill into baseload, renewable power for up to 50,000 homes in the North East. It is Air Products’ first advanced gasification energy scheme to be developed in the UK and on the back of this success, the company intends to develop more advanced gasification projects in the UK.
The project was first announced in July 2010 and subject to the financing of the project and securing environmental permitting consent from the Environment Agency, work on site should start in the first half of 2012, with commercial operations starting in 2014.
Taylor Keogh managed the community and stakeholder consultation programme on behalf of Air Products (www.airproducts.co.uk/teesvalley)
