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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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Power station to be fuelled by grass

LONDON: Britain's first major electricity plant to be fuelled by grass will begin construction later this year. The ú6.5 million power station in Staffordshire, central England, will burn locally cultivated elephant grass and will be able to supply 2,000 homes with electricity. Amanda Gray, director of Eccleshall Biomass, the company behind the power station, said the project was of major importance to rural industry in Staffordshire and offered another way to meet the U.K.'s obligation to reduce carbon emissions, because burning the elephant grass will only release the carbon dioxide that the plants soaked up anyway while they were growing. The plant could also be a key element in the quest to tackle climate change. With only 1 per cent of the world's population, the UK produces 3 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Power stations are a major factor, pumping out around a third of the total carbon dioxide produced by the U.K. —

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