BERLIN — Burgess BioPower has been awarded a $500,000 grant to build a thermal energy recovery system that will use waste heat from its 75-megawatt biomass plant to heat a commercial greenhouse. The $25 million hydroponic greenhouse would employ about 30 employees.

Burgess BioPower said it will look to complete an agreement with an unidentified company that will build and operate the greenhouse, which will grow baby leafy greens, such as spinach, arugula and kale. The company will tear down an old warehouse and relocate a maintenance building to allow the greenhouse to co-locate on the former mill site.

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