Before the end of the yearEnsus, a local start-up, will start production at the £300m bioethanol plant in the Wilton complex. It will convert wheat into fuel, animal feed and carbon dioxide for the soft-drinks industry, and will be the largest of its kind in Europe.
Another firm, MGT Power received planning approval last month to build Europe’s largest biomass plant in the same area.
Gaia Power, will shortly find out whether a £200m waste wood burning plant will be built across the river at Billingham.
At the Centre for Process Innovation, located at the old ICI laboratories, a £17m grant has been approved to expand its activities into new processes, such as turning algae into fuel.
EDF Energy plans to start construction of a 30-turbine wind farm a few miles offshore this year.
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