Reuters quoted a spokeswoman said RWE power will start commercial operations at Britain's biggest biomass power station at Tilbury in Essex at the end of January.

The third of three units at the 750MW power plant will start producing power next week and the whole plant will be commercially operational by the end of January.

She said "Tilbury has two of its three units operating and the third will be commissioned next week."

The new power station will burn wood pellets to produce electricity and is located on the site of the utility's ageing Tilbury coal-fired power plant which will shut down by the end of 2015.

The plant received its first delivery of 46,000 tonnes of wood pellets in November from Georgia in the United States where RWE Innogy owns a biomass pellet factory.

(Sourced from Reuter)