Tilbury Power Plant in U.K. Ablaze as Biomass Ignites

RWE AG’s Tilbury power station in southeast England, Europe’s largest biomass plant, was ablaze after a fire broke out in the facility’s wood-pellet stockpiles.

“We’ve not had an incident like this before because this is the first time we’ve converted a power plant to run fully on biomass,” Kevin McCullogh, chief operating officer at Npower, RWE’s U.K. unit, said in an interview at Tilbury, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of London.