Energy plant's plans for Shropshire countryside
An energy plant with the capacity to power up to 2,000 homes could be built at a farm in the Shropshire countryside.
HLW Farms wants to build the anaerobic digester to process chicken litter as well as crops grown on site to make enough electricity for the farming business to become self-sufficient. It is believed the plant could generate up to 800kW of electricity per hour, and energy not used on the farm would be fed into the local grid.
The plant would be built alongside four chicken sheds on land east of Hollins Lane in Woodseaves, near Market Drayton, if plans are approved.
It would process about 14,000 tonnes of crops and manure over a year including 3,200 tonnes of chicken litter and 6,000 tonnes of maize.
But the idea of such an energy plant has proved controversial in north Shropshire after Grocontinental submitted plans to build a similar plant opposite their site in Whitchurch.
