Plans have been lodged for a biogas energy facility in Tipperary. Photo: Getty
Tipperary could be set to get a new biogas renewable energy facility under plans that have been lodged with the local authority.
Annaholty Green Energy Limited has applied to Tipperary County Council for planning permission to build the biogas plant in Annaholty, near Birdhill, in the north of the county.
Under the plans, the company want to build two anaerobic digesters, along with a secondary storage digester tank, a digestate storage tank, two manure reception tanks, one desulphurisation unit, a small tank, and two larger tanks, as well as two pasteurization tanks, and two cooling tanks.
A pump room with an air filtration system, a mixing tank, as well as offices and workshops, along with various other tanks, a rainwater harvesting system, and a two-storey office building also form part of the plans put before the council.
Annaholty Green Energy are a sister company to GreenGas, who operate another anaerobic digester plant in neighbouring Limerick.
The company set up the biogas plant in Shanagolden in Limerick in 2010, aiming to produce biomethane for direct injection into the national gas grid, which the planned Tipperary plant would also do.
Annaholty Green Energy hope that the proposed new facility in Tipperary will contribute to Ireland’s clean energy transition helping to “significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing fossil fuels with a sustainable alternative,” their website says.
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“The project has the capacity to generate up to 40 GWh of renewable gas each year—enough to supply approximately 3,200 homes with clean, locally produced energy,” the company added.
Tipperary County Council is due to decide on the application by November 26.
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