Eon plans Britain's biggest biomass plant for £300m

Energy firm Eon wants to spend £300m building Britain’s biggest biomass plant at the port of Bristol.

The 150 megawatt plant at Royal Portbury Dock would generate enough electricity to supply 250,000 homes and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 500,000 tonnes a year.

It would burn 1.2m tonnes of fuel, which would mostly be wood chip brought in by ship, and also be able to supply heat to nearby industrial buildings.

Eon has lodged a statement outlining its intentions with the local council and the Department for Business and Enterprise and hopes to begin construction work in 2010, according to the Guardian.

The first power would be produced in 2013 and the plant would go into full operation in 2014.