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In other news, German-owned, UK-based energy company RWE npower has announced the Tilbury power station, which will be Britain's largest biomass plant, will commence operations by the end of this month.
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The station, located on the River Thames in Essex, was a coal-fired plant from its initial development in 1969 until last year. It had been scheduled for closure in 2015 under the EU's strict environmental regulations, but has been given a new lease of life by being converted to operate on sustainable biomass from wood pellets. It will supply enough green power for 1.5 million households for the rest of its lifetime.
It's great to see countries with such stringent environmental laws embracing biomass as a means of ensuring energy supply in a carbon-constrained future. In fact, the WWF has been campaigning for 15 per cent of the OECD's power needs to be met by biomass by 2020.
Renewable energy from wood pellets is a key component of FT's Forestry Innovation Plan. I hope Tasmania's environmentalists will take the lead from their European counterparts and similarly advocate for the adoption of this clean and renewable source of energy for our own State.
