A TEAM of Blackburn solicitors are helping with the construction of a new green energy plant in Cheshire. Taylors, based at Rawlings House, Exchange St in Ewood have done so by advising green entrepreneur Mark Schofield and his company Trinity Organics on a £14 million investment in the construction of the new waste-to-energy plant. Thanks to this advice, the company has won the backing of Dutch green investment firm Primco and construction is now underway on a three-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port, with the facility expected to be operational by the summer. Taylors corporate partner Matthew Catterall said: “We are delighted to have advised Trinity Organics and Mark Schofield on the successful investment by Primco, which will bring Mark’s vision to fruition.
Green energy power plant secures £14m investment
Mark Schofield, left, with Martijn van Rheenen, CEO of Perpetual Next at the power plant site
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Entrepreneur will turn his dream of building a waste-to-energy green power plant in Ellesmere Port into reality after securing £14m backing from a Dutch investor.
Tony McDonough reports
A £14m energy plant that will convert organic waste into electricity will be up and running in Ellesmere Port later this year.
Entrepreneur Mark Schofield’s Trinity Organics has won backing for the project from Netherlands-based green energy investment firm Perpetual Next through its subsidiary Primco. Mr Schofield has been working on the scheme for a number of years.
Friday, 05 February 2021 Mark Schofield’s Trinity Organics has secured a £14 million investment from Netherlands-based green energy investment firm Perpetual Next through its subsidiary Primco. Work is now under way to construct the anaerobic digestion facility on a three-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port. Mark Schofield (left) and Martijin van Rheenen, Chief Executive of Perpetual Next
The facility, which is expected to be up and running by the summer, will operate around the clock to digest 36,000 tonnes of organic waste each year and convert it into green gas to supply the National Grid.
The plant will produce enough biomethane to provide 41.5 million kilowatt hours of gas a year, which is sufficient to power 3,500 average-sized four-bedroom detached houses.