Trent have submitted a formal scoping request for a sustainable energy facility at Ratty’s Lane, Hoddesdon. Trent intend to make a planning application for the facility that will generate both electricity (via a pyrolysis plant) and gas (via an anaerobic digestion plant). The combination of the technologies will be a first of its kind in England, creating one of the cleanest waste to energy plants to date.

The proposed Sustainable Energy Facility would:

• Help provide an alternative source of energy for the National Grid, heat for near-by businesses and/or vehicle fuel
• Generate enough electricity to meet the needs of up to 8,000 homes
• Create up to 40 new jobs
• Make use of materials that might otherwise go to landfill
• Help reduce greenhouse gases. Emissions from biodegradable waste in landfill account for 40% of all UK methane emissions and 3% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. (Methane is 23 times as damaging a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.)