Yorkshire Water has revealed plans to create a new £40 million energy centre that will convert human waste into electricity at Brighouse.

The new facility will use anaerobic digestion to create electricity, powering Brighouse's sewage treatment plant and feeding into the national grid to power homes in Calderdale and Kirklees.

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To create the state-of-the-art centre, an old sewage sludge incinerator built in 1992 will be demolished. Demolition works will get underway in mid-July and take four months to complete.

Yorkshire Water's Communications Advisor, Mark Allsop, said: "This scheme supports our commitment to invest in renewable energy and benefit the environment as we look at ways of reducing carbon emissions.

"Anaerobic digestion is a fantastic technology, heating up sludge to produce a bio-gas which is used to generate electricity. The new facility is expected to be ready to open by mid-2021."

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