Holyhead Biomass Power Station Project

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http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/500-job-holyhead-biomass-project-10292577

A multi-million pound biomass and aquaculture project on Anglesey tipped to create 500 jobs has secured Chinese investment.

SinoFortone Group said the £2bn investment would build two 299MWe biomass power stations by Orthios Eco Parks on Anglesey and in Port Talbot in South Wales.

Heat from the plants will be recycled by hydroponic and aquaculture centres, producing prawns and vegetables.

With news that this project has now been funded and is projected to open in 2017. It is reported that the Power station will use circa 800,000 tonnes of biomass per year of which 80% will be imported I presume through Holyhead harbour, where will the other 20% come from in the UK?

Will they keep the old rail link in place to enable rail to supply the Power station?

If they do will it be the first time for many years that freight has run to Holyhead since the demise of container traffic?

 

[Penmorfa]

Will they keep the old rail link in place to enable rail to supply the Power station?
If they do will it be the first time for many years that freight has run to Holyhead since the demise of container traffic?

Freightliners finished in 1991 but the aluminium works used the railway until 2011.

 

[D1009]

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/500-job-holyhead-biomass-project-10292577

With news that this project has now been funded and is projected to open in 2017. It is reported that the Power station will use circa 800,000 tonnes of biomass per year of which 80% will be imported I presume through Holyhead harbour, where will the other 20% come from in the UK?

Will they keep the old rail link in place to enable rail to supply the Power station?

If they do will it be the first time for many years that freight has run to Holyhead since the demise of container traffic?

Presumably the biomass will be supplied in bulk, so presumably some changes to the port will have to take place as there are currently no facilities for such cargo.

 

[furnessvale]

Presumably the biomass will be supplied in bulk, so presumably some changes to the port will have to take place as there are currently no facilities for such cargo.

The imported biomass could well come in bulk from the USA to Liverpool or Immingham.

If so, the choice is feeder vessel versus rail, so it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that it could be rail along the North Wales coast line.

 

[Teithiwr]

Presumably the biomass will be supplied in bulk, so presumably some changes to the port will have to take place as there are currently no facilities for such cargo.

There is bulk materials jetty at the port linked to the site by underground conveyor. A substantial proportion will come by ship - but with some UK derived biomass?

 

[D1009]

There is bulk materials jetty at the port linked to the site by underground conveyor. A substantial proportion will come by ship - but with some UK derived biomass?

Thanks, I didn't know that.

 

[6Gman]

What site is being proposed? The former Anglesey Aluminium site?

 

[najaB]

What site is being proposed? The former Anglesey Aluminium site?

Yes, it appears that it is.

 

[swissrailpassion]

I heard a rumour that the new Peel Liverpool biomass dock would supply some of it by rail