A Norfolk power station run on chicken waste is hoping to create an 80,000sq m shed to help create fertiliser from by-products.

Energy Power Resources (EPR) claims its bio power station is the largest chicken litter-fuelled plant in the world and is Europe's largest biomass-fuelled electricity generator.

Now it is seeking planning permission to create a fuel curing and storage unit on its site off Mundford Road, Thetford.

The complex gets through 420,000 tonnes of poultry litter a year, and EPR says it wants to deal with 70,000 tonnes of ash left over each year on the site in the proposed building.

“The building will be used as a holding, mixing and curing facility for the biomaterial created at the adjoining power station,” the firm says.

The business already has a similar but smaller unit off the A11 near Barton Mills.

Fertiliser produced through the process at the EPR plant is marketed through a subsidiary, Fibrophos.

Source: Eastern Daily Press