Works have started on plants at Farleigh, Hampshire, Holbeach Hurn, Lincolnshire and Retford, Nottinghamshire with the Farleigh plant expected to begin commissioning this autumn and become operational in early 2014.
Groundworks have also started at a plant in Halstead, Essex and Tamar is expected to begin construction of the plant in the coming months.
Tamar Energy was established in February 2012 and has received around 97 million in financial backing from investors includingThe Duchy of Cornwall, The Rothschild family and Rothschild Investment Trust, Dubai-based investment company Fajr Capital and supermarket chain Sainsburys.
The investment is being used to fund the development and construction of Tamars planned network of over 40 food and mixed waste anaerobic digestion plants at locations across the UK by 2018.
Building work at what is expected to be the companys first functioning facility, the 40,000 tonne per year AD plant at Farleigh, is in advanced stages, with digester tanks currently being constructed. Tamar says that it is in talks with contractors to supply waste to the site.
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Meanwhile, at Holbeach Hurn, the 30,000 tonnes per year capacity facility, which is being built in partnership with food producer AH Worth & Company is expected to begin commissioning in late 2013.
Planned facilities in Nottinghamshire and Essex are expected to come online in 2014, while the company has a further 14 sites at various stages of development, that it hopes to start work on in the coming months.
“Our innovative funding model means we are in a unique position in the AD industry to deliver on our promise of a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable energy and waste management solution for local councils and waste contractors alike”
Alan Lovell, Tamar Energy
Alan Lovell, the companys chairman and chief executive, said: We are very pleased to report that work is on or ahead of schedule at our sites, and we are in advanced stages of negotiations with local waste contractors in and around Hampshire and Essex for our plants in Farleigh and Halstead.
Our innovative funding model means we are in a unique position in the AD industry to deliver on our promise of a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable energy and waste management solution for local councils and waste contractors alike.
In November 2012 Tamar completed a deal to acquire the organics arm of Countrystyle Group Limited, which including the development rights for three proposed AD facilities, all with full planning permission plus several existing composting facilities.
The company also took over the management and operation of six of Countrystyles in-vessel and open windrow composting sites in the South East and East Anglia (see letsrecycle.com story).
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