This will then be taken to the facility at Bentwaters, which will use anaerobic digestion to break down the organic matter to produce a methane rich biogas to generate electricity to be fed back to the National Grid.
It will also create a nutrient rich waste product – in solid and liquid form – that can be applied on surrounding agricultural land as a replacement for mineral fertiliser.
Steven Bainbridge, project manager for Woodbridge based agents The Landscape Partnership, said he was excited to be involved in the project.
“There are certain planning matters that need to be addressed first but work could start as early as the autumn,” Peter Hailes, of AgriGen said. “By virtue of its scale and feed stock of second generation energy crops I would say it was one of the first of its kind in the country.”
A spokesman for Suffolk Coastal District Council said AgriGen Ltd had to comply with some very minor conditions related to off site planting of trees and shrubs and landscaping.
AgriGen is a company set up by a consortium of five east Suffolk farmers stretching from Bawdsey to Sizewell.
