GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband visits the Ensus site on the Wilton complex, Teesside. With Mr Miliband are, left, Alwyn Hughes, chief executive of Ensus, and Bob Coxon, from the Carlyle Group
A GOVERNMENT minister has toured a green power plant that is nearing completion.
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband visited the Ensus plant, at Wilton, Teesside last week.
The plant, which will be Europe’s biggest wheat refinery, is due to begin operating later this year or early next year.
It will use 1.1 million tonnes of wheat a year to produce enough bioethanol to take the equivalent of 300,000 cars off the road.
The main by-product will be about 350,000 tonnes of high-protein animal feed, which should play a key role in reducing and replacing imports of soya meal.
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