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Teesside energy centre gets approval

Planning councillors this week granted approval for a second plant generating electricity from household waste on Teesside, hopefully creating hundreds of jobs in the process.

Sita submitted an application to Stockton Borough Council at the beginning of August for the factory in Haverton Hill, Billingham.

The council’s planning committee gave its backing for the North East Energy Recovery Centre (NEERC) which will be built on land adjacent to the company’s existing Tees Valley energy-from-waste factory.

John Grainger, Sita UK’s North East general manager said: “This is great news and the approval is an enormous boost for the whole North East region and will help confirm the Tees Valley as a centre for energy recovery.

“Construction of this plant will provide hundreds of jobs and there’ll be around 40 new full-time skilled jobs to run the facility when it’s operational.

“This ‘new generation’ energy recovery facility, which involves an investment in the area of more than £120m, will see the development of a facility that will produce renewable energy, reduce the need for landfill and assist measures aimed at combating climate change in the region.”

The new factory would manage up to 256,000 tonnes of household and commercial waste each year. Both facilities will produce sufficient electricity individually each year to supply the homes in a town the size of Hartlepool.

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