Teesside bioethanol plant building starts
Fri 11 May 2007
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Construction of the UK's first world-scale bioethanol plant has begun on Teesside. The event was attended by David Miliband, the Enviroment Secretary.
The Ensus production facility at Wilton will cover a 12 hectare plot, on the site of former chemical industry facilities. The company recently announced it has secured £90m of funding from the Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings - two of the world’s leading financiers for the energy sector - to complete the £250m project.
Output is planned to start in early 2009, with capacity to produce up to 400m litres of fuel a year. The entire bioethanol output has already been contracted to Shell, and it will be mixed with petrol to help fulfill the company’s renewable fuels obligations.
Ensus says it is looking at the options for building a second fuel plant on Teesside, or elsewhere in Northern Europe.
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