Eco Parks
Due to the impending UK energy shortage, there is an opportunity
to provide green power from alternative fuel sources.
With a team of development professionals, UK sites in accessible
locations, a sustainable supply of biomass and innovative
technology partners, Lateral is in a unique situation to provide
biomass power stations to supply power into the UK power grid and
develop it's Eco Parks adjacent to each power plant.
To complement the Company's biomass
energy division, Lateral has introduced self-sustaining,
ecologically sound Eco Parks, complete with hydroponic
greenhouses and aquaculture fish facilities. Economies of scale are
maximized because these operations can be run by using the surfeit
of energy byproducts from the Company's CHP Power Stations output.
Food production is an essential service, with strong demand
for local vegetable produce from our hydroponic greenhouses and
fish from our aquaculture facilities. We have the finest expertise
available plus opportunities to partner with the local university
for research and development.
Welsh Eco Park
At the centre of our UK strategy is the Welsh Eco Parc,
Anglesey, which forms the basis of the model for
our business's in Ireland and throughout the UK.
LATERAL POWER'S ECO PARK PROPOSAL IS UNIQUE! ONE
BUSINESS' WASTE IS ANOTHER BUSINESS' RESOURCE.
Lateral Power utilises the excess heat and CO2 generated
from our power stations and use it in other associated
business'.
The super heated hot water is engineered to feed cold
stores for high value foods, the warm water feeds a specialist fish
farm and the soiled water from the fish combined with the CO2 from
the power plant feed a greenhouse hydroponics centre; producing
lettuce and various vegetables. In this process we use what most
other processes throw away.
The objective of this project is to provide profits from the
production of "green" power and sustainable electricity for the UK
power grid. In addition it will produce healthy fresh grown food
products; provide employment and sustainable income for the
residents of Anglesey and the North Wales coast; reduce the carbon
footprint of importation of food from overseas and will utilise
many of the existing buildings on the site.
The Project comprises a cluster of businesses, with energy as
the common link. Each is in a separate market sector
and provides many employment opportunities in a variety of
skill sets for skilled, semi and unskilled workers.
The Welsh Eco Power project will conservatively create more than
400 permanent jobs on the existing site and there is an
opportunity to create further jobs and additional complementary
businesses on the park.