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The Blackburn Meadows biomass plant in Sheffield has generated electricity for the first time.
The 30MW renewable energy plant is owned and run by Eon, and is the company’s third biomass plant in the UK.
The £120 million facility generated electricity and synchronised with the local distribution network for the first time on Tuesday evening.
Luke Ellis, Eon’s Blackburn Meadows project manager, said: “After several years of hard work by the project team and our contractors it is a great feeling to be finally generating power.
“The next and final stage of the project is the reliability and performance testing phase which is due to be completed this summer.”
The Blackburn Meadows plant will also supply hot water to a new £20 million low carbon district heating network, which is due to be completed in early 2015.
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