200 jobs for Derry as wood burning power plant goes to construction

It’s emerged that 200 jobs will be created during the construction of a new power plant in Derry.
Evermore Renewable Energy will says it has secured more than £80m in funding for a wood-fuelled power plant to be built at Lisahally Port outside Derry.
Construction work is set to start in the next two months, with the plant due to open in two years time, supplying up to 25,000 homes with electricity.
The wood burning CHP plant to be built at Lisahally will be the first of its kind on the island of Ireland, producing 15-megawatts of power.
200 construction jobs will be created in the coming weeks, with a company spokesperson predicting between 25 and 30 full time jobs at the plant after it becomes operational in the summer of 2015.
He said the company has been developing the project over the last four years, and should be starting work in the next six to eight weeks.
The North’s Energy Minister Arlene Foster says the development will make an important contribution towards Northern Ireland’s 2020 renewable energy targets, and is the first Northern Ireland project to secure funding from the Green Investment Bank.