Welcome to the community consultation website for the proposed Thetford Renewable Energy Plant.
A planning application (Ref No. C/3/2010/3004) has been submitted by MEIF Renewable Energy Holdings Limited to Norfolk County Council (NCC). A copy of the core planning application documents and plans can be viewed here.
Energy Power Resources Limited (EPRL) who currently operates the existing Thetford Power Station, would also operate the proposed development. The plant would generate 40MWe of electricity by burning biomass in the form of waste wood, instead of burning traditional fossil fuels like coal and gas.
Compared to generating energy from a gas-fired plant, Thetford Renewable Energy Plant would cut the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by more than 120,000* tonnes every year, the equivalent of taking more than 45,000 cars off the UK's roads, by burning a renewable fuel in place of traditional fossil fuels.
It would provide around 120 jobs per day during construction, and up to 36 permanent jobs when it is operational.
On this website, you can read about our plans for the project and sign-up to receive project updates via email. Feedback collected via this website, has been submitted with the planning application.
*Note: this calculation is as a result of generation only and is based on equivalent CO2 emissions from a gas-fired power plant; these numbers would differ for coal as a coal-fired plant would emit approximately 830g of CO2 per kwh compared to approximately 380g from a gas-fired plant.
