A SEVEN-STOREY power station to be built at Achnabreck will create up to 30 jobs and be a ‘huge boost to the local economy’ say the developers.
The Argyllshire Advertiser exclusively revealed last week that plans are in place to build a £13 million bio power station – and councillors rubber-stamped the application at Wednesday’s meeting of Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands area committee meeting held on Colonsay.
Managing director of Northern Energy Development Ltd, Fergus Tickell, said after planning consent was approved: ‘The power plant will generate the equivalent electricity of a 15 to 20 mega watt windfarm and we have a similar project being determined at the moment for Cowal.
‘A noise survey was carried out and conditions have been applied to the planning consent. The plant will add value to wood in Mid Argyll and will mean a huge boost to the local economy.’
Complete by 2010
Finnish company Wartsila will build the power plant, with completion expected early 2010. A spokesman for Wartsila said: ‘We have built several similar plants in Sweden, Finland and Germany and they are considered good, clean and efficient.
‘Locally, they improve long term employment in wood treatment and handling in forests, transportation, as well as in the plant operation and maintenance.
‘The planned power plant would run on wood, which is a clean bio fuel and should not be mixed with waste incineration, which happens every now and then.
‘Heat is used locally and no fossil fuel is burnt in the process, which means less CO2 emissions.’
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