COSPP – Bernard Matthews turkey farms has launched a programme to become 100 per cent green energy self-sufficient by 2016.
The programme is delivering nine large on-site wind turbines, two solar farms covering 90 acres, the UK’s largest single biomass project with 229 155-199kw boilers, an anaerobic digestion plant, a £3.6m investment in energy efficient technologies in its factories and another 2 MW biomass plant for a feed mill. It is also developing a second 500m³/hour anaerobic plant to supply gas to the national grid.
The Guardian reports that the UK’s largest turkey farmer has built biomass boilers to heat its 248 sheds.
