GRANOX has been given permission to build a biomass plant big enough to supply 4% of Halton households with energy.
The firm, also known as PDM, intends to install a 4.2-megawatt anaerobic digestion plant on Desoto Road in Widnes.
According to a planning report, the facility would digest food waste and turn it into compost and biogas.
The 1.12-hectare facility is expected to process 90,000 tons of food waste from Merseyside every year.
The waste currently goes into landfill, the report said. It added that landfill produces methane, which contributes 20 times more to climate change effects than carbon dioxide – the sole gas emission of the biogas digestion process.
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