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RWE to open UK's biggest biomass plant this month

LONDON (Reuters) - RWE npower will start commercial operations at Britain's biggest biomass power station at Tilbury in Essex at the end of January, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - RWE npower will start commercial operations at Britain's biggest biomass power station at Tilbury in Essex at the end of January, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.

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

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

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