MGT Power Announces New Biomass Power Plant Project

MGT Power Ltd. just released details on their newest biomass power plant project to be located in the North Tyneside, England. The company has chosen an area of industrial land to build their new 295 MW Tyne Renewable Energy Plant. The land sits just 10Kms outside of the Newcastle City Centre in the Port of Tyne, North Shields.

The Tyne Renewable Energy Plant (REP) will use almost 2.4 million tonnes of clean burning woodchips as biofuel per year and will remain operational 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The plant will be constructed on the Northside of the river Tyne and if all plans remain on schedule will be open and operating by 2014.

MGT Power has been handing out a Scoping Document detailing specifics of the Tyne REP to environmental planning groups in preparation for the project. The document has been passed out to locally organisations including North Tyneside Council, the Environment Agency and the Department of Energy & Climate Change.

These groups can read the document to ascertain details such as rationale behind the plant, policies that will be implemented at the plant, as well as steps that MGT Power will take to pass the projects Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). 

Biomass for the Tyne REP will be supplied by using approved sustainable forestry projects which the MGT Power researchers have established themselves, as well as via associates in North and South America, the Baltic States, and eventually sources inside the UK.