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Renewable Energy

The General Manager, E.ON UK Renewables, Jason Scagell, has made an excellent point:

Many years ago, Britain was powered by windmills and water mills and people burned wood to provide heat. It might seem strange to many people that we’re looking back to the past to answer our energy needs for the future.

Weird isn't it? Here we are at the most advanced stage in our history and we are going back centuries in terms of the generation of power. Of course, there are parts of the world where wood burning is still the norm.

So what are we doing about all of this to make it true? Well, E.ON already have many projects generating green energy, including 16 windfarms and the largest hydro-electric scheme in England and Wales at Rheidol and via UK Watch (a UK government service) we learn that

E.ON UK has given the go-ahead for the UK’s largest dedicated biomass power station, a £90 million ($157 million) 44 MW plant to be built at Lockerbie in Scotland. The scheme, which will supply enough green power to meet the needs of around 70,000 homes and displace the emission of 140,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, confirms Scotland’s huge potential for both electricity generation and growing energy crops.

The 220,000 oven dried tonnes of fuel required by the station every year will come from the area: initially in the form of forestry residue but subsequently willow trees harvested by local
farmers.

You can red the rest of the UK Watch where this came from here. Just a page but looks nice!

Why not look at E.ON's introduction to biomass energy here: a nice flow diagram helps to spell it all out too; and you'll learn how biomass can be ‘dependent’ or ‘dedicated’!

Marvellous and you don't have to ben an environmental freak to appreciate this sort of news either. It's for the good of us all!


Duncan Williamson

posted by Duncan Williamson @ 2:43 PM