Woodbridge-based Melton Renewable Energy runs five biomass generation plants including Eye power station in Suffolk and sites at Thetford in Norfolk, Ely in Cambridgeshire, Westfield in Fife and Glanford in Lincolnshire.

It stresses that its 200-strong workforce operating the plants are not currently at risk of redundancy.

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Eddie Wilkinson, chief executive of Melton Renewable Energy in Woodbridge (Image: Melton Renewable Energy)

But it has updated employees on its plans beyond March 2027 - when Renewables Obligation (RO) support ends for the plants ends.

 It says without "appropriate transitional support or alternative commercial arrangements" the plants don't have a future beyond that point.

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