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£20m green energy plant gets vital cash boost
A VITAL £2.45m funding boost has been announced for a scheme to build a £20m green energy plant, creating 40 jobs in a North Yorkshire market town.
Planning consent has already been given for the Selby Renewable Energy Park, which will be the largest of its kind in the UK to use technology which turns food waste into power.
The Anaerobic Digestion technology will generate huge amounts of clean energy as well as processing 165,000 tonnes of food waste per year which would otherwise have been sent to landfill sites.
Now it has been announced the park will receive 1.7m from WRAP – the Waste & Resources Action Programme, which helps businesses cut waste – through the national organisation's Organics Capital Grant Fund.
The fund aims has been set up to see the vast amounts of waste produced by the food industry can be used for green energy, rather than just being dumped on tips.
Future Energy Yorkshire, which is funded by Yorkshire Forward, has also supported the Selby plant, with an investment of 750,000.
Jemma Benson, Funding Manager of Future Energy Yorkshire, said: "Future Energy Yorkshire sees the Selby Renewable Energy Park as an important development for the region.
"Through generating renewable electricity it will contribute to carbon emission reduction targets, create new jobs and divert waste from landfill. With this in mind it was an ideal project for us to invest in."
Shaun Flynn, Business Development Manager for the Park added: "The funding from both WRAP and Future Energy Yorkshire has been essential to us in enabling this project to get the go ahead. Without this support it would have been difficult to secure the investment given the current economic climate."
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