A ‘pioneering’ project to build the first council-owned 'pyrolysis' carbon-saving energy facility in the UK could be just the beginning of a much bigger operation, Shropshire Council officials have said.
Senior councillors and officers said the groundbreaking plan was a “win, win, win” for the council – with the potential to more than halve its carbon footprint with just one unit, bring in extra income and provide heat and electricity to local businesses.
In fact deputy council leader Ian Nellins believes the only concern opponents might have is that it “sounds too good to be true”. Richard MacDonald, principal commercial project surveyor, revealed the council is probably leaning towards Bridgnorth. “Normally when you burn stuff, carbon mixes with oxygen and carbon dioxide is given off. With this, the carbon stays there.”
The biochar itself and the residual heat will also be sold, the latter potentially feeding into a local heat network, and Veolia will have to pay the council a gate fee to process the green waste. Councillor Nellins said: “Because of our locality we are fortunate we have got the feed so we don’t have to buy that in.“If this was a city, they would not have the feed to do this kind of thing – unless they bought it from us.”
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