He built the world's largest bioelectric plant

On November 21, British Minister of Business and Regulatory Reform John Hutton said Britain will build the largest bioelectric plant in the world.

This is a factory producing electricity through heat from firewood, a cheap fuel and less polluting environment. The 350-megawatt plant, located in the industrial city of Talbot on the coast of Wales in southern England, has a 25-year operating period with an estimated construction cost of £ 400 million ($ 830 million). .

Hutton said it is the world's largest bioelectric plant, producing enough clean energy to power half of Wales' homes and meet about 70% of clean energy use targets. In this area in 2010. To operate, each year, the plant uses about 3 million tons of firewood and this is mainly imported from the United States and Canada.

The plan to build this plant belongs to one of eight projects to increase the use of renewable fuels, the UK government " green light " in the past 12 months to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions as committed. by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Mr. John Hutton (Photo: AFP)