Glenmore Estate has applied for planning permission to extend its recently built biogas plant in Ballyboffey, Co Donegal, already the largest in the Republic.

The application lodged this Wednesday is for three main anaerobic digester tanks in addition to the existing four and a range of connected services.

These include a purification and compression station to allow the plant's biogas to be upgraded to fuel grade and sold.

Six storage tanks and a parking area for lorries are planned to dispatch the final liquid fertiliser

The plans also features a fertiliser plant complete with equipment to process the digestate resulting from the production of biogas.

Six storage tanks and a parking area for lorries are planned to dispatch the final liquid fertiliser.

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The group of companies headed by local businessman Karol McElhinney has two other major planning application in progress.

Another proposed biogas plant in Gort, Co Galway is on hold after the county council requested further information.

Back in Co Donegal, Glenmore is awaiting a decision on its planning application to redevelop the 2,400ac An Grianán estate in Burt into a 2,000-cow organic dairy farm.

The plan includes the complete demolition of the existing yard and its reconstruction including two slatted sheds of 17,100sqm each, 24 milking robots and eight silage pits.