Sixteen towering concrete silos could be built at Royal Portbury Dock [UK] to store pellets to fuel biomass plants across the country.
Bristol Port Company has applied to North Somerset Council for permission to build up to 16 of the concrete silos which would measure 50 metres high by 30 metres wide and each hold 15,000 tonnes of wood pellets.
Initially the port company had been considering housing the pellets in a large 35 metre high building, but has now decided that the silos are more appropriate. The silos would be used to store pellets for energy companies across the UK.
