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Friday 02 October 2009
Work on a new £10m green energy centre at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary could get underway later this month after the plans won approval from city councillors yesterday.
NHS Grampian has been granted planning permission to demolish the existing boiler house at the Foresterhill hospital to make way for the new environmentally-friendly power centre.
A 114ft chimney-stack would rise from the new building, which will house a combined heat and power plant, as well as a biomass boiler run on wood chips.
About 90% of the entire hospital site is to be powered by the eco-friendly centre, which could potentially save taxpayers and regional health chiefs more than £2million in energy bills, once it is up and running in spring 2011.
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