BEI-Teesside

BEI-Teesside is a planned biomass power station, to be built on the River Tees at Port Clarence. The plant has been developed by Bio Energy Investments (BEI). The plant is expected to be Fueled by reprocessed pine kernel shells, to generate 49 megawatts of electricity, enough to Power 50,000 homes. The plant has been designed by Heatherwick Studio. It was granted planning permission on 17 March 2010, and construction was expected to start later that year. The plant is expected to be completed in 2012, and is expected to cost £150 million. 200 construction job are expected to be made, and 40 full time jobs when the plant is complete.

The plant is to be constructed on a brownfield site alongside the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, on a 6 hectare site which hasn't been used in 50 years since the Clarence Iron Works were demolished. The plant will occupy 2 hectares of the site, while the rest will be landscaped.