Edenderry Power gets green light for further development

Offaly County Council has given Edenderry Power Ltd approval to accept a further 100kt of biomass each year that will result in deliveries of 28 additional loads per day at the site. The company supplies approximately three percent of Ireland's national electricity requirement by way of biomass including willow and miscanthus crops, forestry residues, woodchips and pulp wood. The planning application submitted by the company last April looked for approval to develop a 1.48 hectare concrete slab for the storage of biomass, a 1.7 cubic metre storage silo for dry biomass, retention for an oil intercepter, settlement tanks and associated works to collect rainwater runoff from the slab and an embankment along the north western boundary. Offaly County Council requested further information from Edenderry Power Ltd in June, which they were given at the beginning of August. On August 30 Offaly County Council planners elected to give the project the green light.