Plans to build a Centre of Renewable Energy Excellence in Pembrokeshire have been unveiled in Wales, in a bid to make the area an international standard-bearing for green energy.
Cypriot-owned renewable energy company Egnedol has purchased the former Gulf refinery at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. The company proposes to build a £685m facility capable of creating clean biogas from biomass which will be used to produce electricity of liquid fuel, creating up to 560 jobs in the process.
The facility will see heat processed from organic materials such as wood and used as a catalyst for on-site food production businesses which includes a fish farm, cheese factory and greenhouses. Biomass will then be transferred via ships. It is believed the food production and distribution will create the bulk of new jobs.