Engineering work has begun at a coal-fired power station in Essex that could turn it into the world’s largest biomass plant – burning wood pellets with almost no carbon emissions. RWE, the German owner of the Tilbury power station on the Thames, says it hopes to be ready to produce up to 750 megawatts of green power by the winter. Tilbury, as with many other traditional coal-fired stations, was heading for closure in 2015 under tough new environmental regulations imposed by the European Union. Read More
