Energy Plant developers to hold public exhibition
This is to allow local residents the opportunity to go and meet the developer and to discuss their proposals to develop an Energy Recovery facility in the area.
It will take place on Monday July 4 at the House of Vic Ryn between 1pm - 6pm.
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Hide AdBack in March Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson urged the company behind the scheme to re-consider.
The plan was first mooted last year, when people living near the site were issued with details of the application from the Planning Service and asked to give their views.
Mr Donaldson said he was concerned about the impact such a plant could have on an essentially residential area.
The company behind the scheme insists it is a tried and tested way to produce electricity in an environmentally friendly way.
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Hide AdLast year a spokesman explained the company’s facilities treat municipal and commercial waste. He said: “BioGen Power is the UK’s largest and fastest growing renewable energy company in the UK using Advanced Conversion technology (ACT) to treat non hazardous waste.”
He said the firm uses ‘modern and well proven gasification and pyrolysis technology to dispose of waste’.
“The technology utilised by BioGen Power and proposed for our facility at Lisburn has over 450,000 hours of successful operational uptime” he said. “There are eight Energos facilities operating across Europe with the most recent located at Sarpsborg, near Oslo. This is a similar sized facility as that planned for Lisburn.
The spokesman said gasification was not incineration. “Rather, we use a partial combustion process which creates a gas rather than smoke, there are few emissions (emissions are generally less than 10% of EU permitted levels). The gas is then used to heat water in a conventional boiler, raising steam which then drives a steam turbine that produces low carbon renewable electricity, just like a power station, though far cleaner and greener. Instead of generating electricity by using our limited and valuable fossil fuels, we use waste to make energy.”