Biomass for business at the UK's largest biomass CHP plant- Model for economic development?

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Biomass for business at the UK's largest biomass CHP plant

Slough Heat & Power has metamorphosed to become Europe’s largest trading estate in single ownership, with around 400 companies, 17,000 employees and 600 buildings on its 500-acre site in the Thames Valley.

The companies on the site are a mix of commercial and industrial businesses, all of which are supplied with electricity, heat and water from utility company Slough Heat and Power (SH&P). Over 2000 nearby homes are also supplied with their electricity from SH&P via 100 km of underground cable as part of a private electricity network. Nearly 30% of the site has been rebuilt since 1990.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/reworld/story?id=51979


It seems that this should be a model copies by lots of cities to promote energy and resource effeciency and economic development