Bio-energy plants to employ 100 in Cork and Dublin

Planning permission has been granted for two bio-energy plants in Cork and Dublin. These will convert waste food into electricity, cost €50m to build and employ 100 full-time.

The two plants, which will be built at Little Island, Co Cork, and Finglas, Co Dublin, are to be constructed by Irish-owned company, Stream BioEnergy.

The company will use anaerobic digesters, in which micro-organisms will break down food and first convert it into fertilisers and bio-gas and then into electricity and heat.