Forth Energy Proposals for Biomass Plant On Leith Docks

Hi folks,

We just got a letter pointing us in the direction of this website:

www.forthenergy.co.uk

A public meeting on the proposals is going to happen at some stage in 'early 2010', with more details to follow. I've not had a chance to digest the scoping report yet (A 10MB download). Would be interested to hear anyone else's thoughts on the proposals.

Tags: Biomass, Docks, EIA, Energy, Forth, Planning, Ports, Regeneration

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Permalink Reply by Greener Leith on May 20, 2010 at 2:20pm

One of the arguments that Forth Energy have put forwards to justify the scale of their proposed Biomass plants is that smaller scale biomass and district heating systems are not financially viable without public subsidy. Today the Scottish Government announced a whole lot of subsidy for small scale renewable biomass plants throughout the country. So what's stopping Forth Energy applying to this fund in order to support the costs of building a district heating system then?

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2010/05/20100227

Permalink Reply by Greener Leith on May 20, 2010 at 2:21pm

Greener Leith said:

One of the arguments that Forth Energy have put forwards to justify the massive scale of their proposed Biomass plants is that smaller scale biomass and district heating systems are not financially viable without public subsidy. Today the Scottish Government announced a whole lot of subsidy for small scale renewable biomass plants throughout the country. So what's stopping Forth Energy applying to this fund in order to support the costs of building a district heating system supplied (perhaps in part) by smaller scale biomass plants on the docks then? http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2010/05/20100227

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