Eon have just announced that they have secured planning permission for a dedicated biomass plant in Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield.
It's tiny though - only 25MW. By comparison a coal fired power station would be up to 1500MW.
I can't help but feel that building small dedicated biomass plants is not the best way ahead.
By co-firing biomass it's possible to burn more biomass at higher efficiency - for example one unit at ferrybridge power station has 6 25MW gasifiers bolted onto the back of the boiler which, after leveling to electricity is equivelant to, perhaps, 60MW.
Burning biomass in larger boilers is more efficient - and with a projected global fuel shortage efficiency matters.
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