Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility

Project description

JG Pears is developing a proposal for a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to provide steam and electricity to its poultry rendering facility at Low Marnham, Newark, Nottinghamshire. The plant will burn meat and bone meal which will provide steam for JG Pears’ operating processes, along with electricity which will be used on-site, with any excess going to the National Grid.

Scope of work

Norton Rose Fulbright advised JG Pears on the development and financing of the biomass plant.

What makes the project unique

The facility will replace over 90 percent of the fossil fuels currently used in the rendering process with meat and bone meal (MBM), a sustainable alternative that has a calorific value of the same magnitude as coal, saving over 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. MBM can also be sourced more locally than the fuels currently used, which in turn reduces carbon emissions from transport and transport miles.

Meet the Team

The project was led by our London office