Detailed proposals for a 95MW energy from waste plant on the South Humber Bank have now been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate.
EP Waste Management Ltd, a subsidiary of EPUKI, is looking to almost double the capacity of a consented power station it has yet to bring forward at Stallingborough.
Due to the size the application has been escalated to a nationally-significant project.
It would sit on land the company already owns, having acquired the distinctive gas-fired power station from Centrica in 2017.
Located off Hobson Way, the £300-million proposal - first revealed in November - would be known as South Humber Bank Energy Centre.
Prior to the application, which will ultimately be decided by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Czech-owned entity held consultations with stakeholders.
It has stressed that other than additional works “no changes are proposed to the maximum building dimensions and fuel throughput that were approved by the planning permission” granted by North East Lincolnshire Council a year ago.
Detailed documents will be published by the Planning Inspectorate once the application is deemed as accepted.
A total of 50 permanent jobs are anticipated, with 600 at peak construction. It would divert waste from landfill and export, much of which heads out of neighbouring Port of Immingham. The plant would have a 30 year life span. It sits at the heart of the South Humber Industrial Investment Programme area, which also includes a neighbouring green jet fuel plant - also currently with planners.
The original EPUKI scheme envisaged handling 620,000 tonnes per annum of refuse-derived fuel.
Europe’s sixth largest power generator, it operates 2.6GW in the UK – the same output as the two world-leading offshore wind farms emerging out of Grimsby now. It has development consents to construct up to a further 4.2GW of new build combined cycle gas turbines at Eggborough and King’s Lynn.
