The Thames Gateway Power facility brings the green spark to the Sustainable Industries Park to allow other tenants on the Park to use renewable and low carbon heat and power for their offices, workshops and factories. This heat and power is produced by using the process of gasification to take residual waste materials from local businesses and convert them to a gas – called a synthesis gas, or syngas – that can be used in the same way as natural gas.

The best way to understand why this is being considered is to compare the key features of the development with the most widely accepted model of managing waste. This is known as the Waste Hierarchy. The intention of the waste hierarchy is to encourage behaviour that is sustainable. This should be achieved (in order of preference) by reducing waste at source through minimisation or reuse, ensuring waste that is produced can be composted or recycled or have energy recovered from it, with landfill being the option of last resort. The Hierarchy is shown below.

Hover over each part of the Hierarchy and a box will appear telling you what feature of the Resource Park relates to it.

The Thames Gateway Power facility has been designed to complement the Waste Hierarchy and in so doing creating sustainable jobs. All the jobs created at this development will by definition be new. The facility represents a new generation of sustainable development much needed not only in East London but in the country as a whole.

The development will see the construction of the entire building, fitting out the plant and equipment and then the commercial operation of the plant. Construction and fitting out will require an average of 150 job roles with a peak of 300 jobs for a 3 month period. The operation of the energy plant will bring a total of 35 permanent jobs and over £1.1M of wages into the local economy.

 

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