Bioenergy Insight
Summary
Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has reviewed and extended its waste strategy to allow a full implementation of improvements that aim to maximise reuse and recycling across the region.
The council’s Infrastructure Services Committee agreed to extend and amend the 2019-2023 strategy on 25 January, which also accounted for the impact of Covid and how wood waste is now used as fuel for a biomass plant.
All wood waste collected in Aberdeenshire is currently being sent to the Markinch Biomass plant to be used as fuel.
The plant, in turn, supplies low-carbon heat to businesses and houses within Glenrothes town centre.
As the plant is a combined heat and power project, it supplies enough clean energy to power 56,000 households, offsetting 250,000t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) per year, helping the UK economy move away from fossil fuels.
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