Tesco turns to straw power

James S Murray
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New Combined Heat and Power plant to provide carbon netural energy to distribution centre

Supermarket giant Tesco has announced plans to build the UK's first Combined Heat and Power plant to be fuelled entirely by straw. The company said it has been granted approval to begin work on the...

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