Nov 9 2010
Ireland-based Biotricity, which supplies and installs energy saving systems and wind turbines, has declared its plans to build a biomass facility worth €40 million in Co Offaly, Ireland. The plant will create about 200 job opportunities for construction of the proposed facility and about 65 people will be employed at the facility during the first year of operation.
The Co Offaly facility will be a combined heat and power (CHP) plant with a capacity of 15 MW, which can serve the demands of about 5,000 houses, and will use willow cropped by the Irish planters as the starting material to generate power.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen, the Prime Minister of Ireland, congratulated Biotricity for its efforts to develop the project. He also said that the proposed facility would benefit the environment and the local economy in terms of jobs it would bring.
The Co Offaly biomass plant will reduce the emission of carbon considerably, which equals 210,000 tonnes of CO2 per year and thus will provide a significant contribution in the Ireland’s targets of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gas.
Source: http://www.biotricity.ie