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â??Waste' energy plant for Teesside

Plans to build a £120m electricity plant on Teesside that turns waste into energy were unveiled last week. SITA UK has submitted plans to Stockton Borough Council to build the facility at the Haverton Hill Industrial Estate in Billingham.

The company’s proposed energy-from-waste facility - which would be called the North East Energy Recovery Centre or NEERC - would manage up to 256,000 tonnes of household and commercial waste each year. It will produce sufficient electricity each year to supply the homes in a town the size of Hartlepool and create around 40 jobs.

The development will include a railhead, meaning that waste can be transported to the site by rail and the number of road journeys can be minimised.

Graham Ingleson, general manager for SITA on Teesside, said: “It will provide hundreds of jobs during construction and around 40 new full-time skilled jobs will be created to operate the centre.

“The NEERC is an example of a new generation of facility that will produce renewable energy and reduce the need for landfill in the region. It will produce sufficient electricity each year to power a town the size of Hartlepool and also provide heat that can be piped to local industries, helping to reduce their energy needs and reduce the use of fossil fuels.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .