Power plant plan fromHelius ‘in final stages’
PLANS by a Teesside renewable energy company to build a green power plant have reached their final stages.
Helius Energy of Middlesbrough has submitted documentation to the Secretary of State for approval of its biomass power station at Stallingborough, Humberside.
The planning application process is set to be completed by the end of the year.
Helius has plan to operate three 65-megawatt plants.
It hopes to develop a site at Seaton Port in Hartlepool and a third plant is expected to be set up on the North-west coast, at a site yet to be named.
John Seed, managing director, said: “We are delighted to have progressed our application for this important sustainable power project to the point where it can be presented to the Secretary of State having dealt with all substantive comments made.”
The site, including biomass electricity generating station, bioethanol and biodiesel refineries, will be located on the Humber estuary.
The proposed development of the site includes establishing extensive dedicated and managed wildlife habitats.
At the start of this year the company began trading its shares on the Alternative Investment Market to help finance its plans for three £100m biomass plants.
And in May it appointed engineering, construction and maintenance group McBurney Corporation and infrastructure services company Morgan Est to undertake pre-engineering works leading to the construction of the Stallingborough plant.
