A PLANNING application has been submitted by Veolia to retain a gas power plant that is currently not in use.
Bramshill Gas Utilisation Plant (GUP) was granted permission in 1999 but it expired in 2020.
Veolia has submitted a planning application to Hampshire County Council to seek permission to retain the Bramshill Landfill Site in Eversley.
In a GUP, the landfill gas is collected and piped into a central gas utilisation plant. Normally, sites like these have a number of gas engines that are used to generate electricity, which is then sent to the National Grid.
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For 2002, Bramshill produced 7,832 MWh of electricity.
As the permission has ended, the company now wants to “regularise the position”.
In the planning application letter, Veolia proposed that the new deal would have a time limit of 20 years until 2044.
The Bramshill landfill site is part of the ‘Project Integra’, which runs until 2023.
It is a now-closed landfill site, where the only operation currently, is to extract and utilise landfill gas. To do this, there is an established gas utilisation infrastructure on site.
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