A parish council is taking a radical step to go green - by setting up its own power station!

St Margaret’s Parish Council is investigating ways to make the village carbon neutral and if possible to pump energy into the national electricity grid.

It is seriously considering the creation of a biomass generator fuelled by crops that would use five per cent of the agricultural land around the village.

Talks about establishing this form of power generation are taking place with the district council and Dover Harbour Board.

The parish has set up up an energy-saving committee which, with local partners, is considering a range of options including wind turbines and tidal power.

It was expected there would be a three- to four-year payback time on the cost of establishing a biomass generation plant and income would flow from selling electricity generated back into the national grid.

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