Infrastructure Horizons: Biomass

Infrastructure
Horizons: Biomass
A practical guide for contractors
seeking to enter the biomass civil
engineering sector.
Contents
01CONTENTS
02INTRODUCTION
03
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES TO SHAPE THE WORLD
05
REGULATION & LEGISLATION
07CONSTRUCTION
08
PILING & GROUND ENGINEERING
09 SHUTTERING, FIXING & CONCRETING
10
STEEL FRAME CONSTRUCTION
10
STEEL TANK CONSTRUCTION
12
17
ANGLESEA ALUMINIUM
12E.ON
SSE/FORTH PORTS
18
CARRON ENERGY
13
18DALKIA
RWE NPOWER
13RES
18
EXPRESS ENERGY
14
HELIUS ENERGY
19
EAST YORKSHIRE POWER
14
GAIA POWER
19
REAL VENTURES
14ECO2
19
MGT POWER
15DRAX
20
WATER COMPANIES
16KEDCO
21
UK BIOMASS POWER STATIONS: CURRENTLY OPERATING
22
UK BIOMASS POWER STATIONS: IN PLANNING/UNDER CONSTRUCTION
23
UK BIOMASS POWER STATIONS: PROPOSED PROJECTS
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ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE HORIZONS
01
Introduction
to the Toolkit
In recent years the challenge for the UK’s power producers
has been quite simple - how to maintain the level of power
the nation requires while replacing our existing fleet of aging,
environmentally questionable nuclear and fossil fuel driven
power stations.
And with national and international governmental decisions
being taken to help reduce our impact on the environment,
there has been an increased focus on the use of more
sustainable solutions to help meet our electricity demand.
While the greater focus has been on the provision of on and
offshore wind farms there have also been strides taken to
increase the influence of power production from material
derived from living or recently living organisms – or biomass.
Carbon used to construct biomass is absorbed from
atmospheric carbon dioxide by plant life. Plants may be eaten
by animals and converted in animal biomass.
If not eaten it is broken down, releasing the carbon as either
carbon dioxide or methane. If burned it is returned as carbon
dioxide.
Power plants can use both the heat generated by burning
biomass or the methane as a fuel to produce electricity.
2 Foreword
Biomass Sub-divisions
That simple definition of a biomass operation being powered
using living or recently living organisms becomes rather more
tortuous with a host of add on definitions and sub-sectors
within the industry.
There are five basic categories of fuel material which are used
in biomass plants they are:Virgin wood: fuel material sourced from forestry,
arboriculture activities or from wood processing
Energy crops: fuel material sourced from high yield crops
grown specifically for energy applications
Agricultural residues: residues from agriculture harvesting or
processing
Food waste: waste from food and drink manufacture,
preparation and processing, and post-consumer waste
Industrial waste: waste material and co-products from
manufacturing and industrial processes.
Environmental Policies to
Shape the World
Like many industrial processes in the UK power production
now and in the future is shaped by a commitment made by
the bulk of the world’s industrialised nations more than 15
years ago.
The Kyoto Protocol which the European Union signed up to
in 1997 sets binding targets on the industrialised nations to
reduce greenhouses gases in an attempt to limit the manmade interference on the world’s climate.
Under the protocol those signatories agreed to limit and
reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in two
target periods 2008-12 and 20013-20.
The UK government has also launched its own legislative
measures to combat climate change with the introduction
of the Climate Change Act 2008.
This too commits the country to a reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions, specifically a target of 80% on 2010 levels
over a series of budget periods ending in 2050.
It is against this background that the power and energy
sector has been forced to re-evaluate its dependence on
costly and polluting fossil fuel-based solutions and look
toward methods that will still allow us to produce our own
energy while decreasing the impact of that production on
the environment.
Under the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive the UK has
been targeted with providing some 15% of its energy
consumption by renewable sources such as biomass,
onshore and offshore wind power, wave and tidal power
and solar photovoltaics by 2020. With the renewable
supply figure standing at 3% at the time of the directive
it became clear that meeting those commitments would
be achievable but not easy. The government published
the Renewable Energy Roadmap which showed how the
UK could meet these targets and, at the same time, its
updatable Electricity Market Reform white paper.
Infrastructure Horizons: Biomass
Since 2002 the government has used the Renewals
Obligation (RO) mechanism to help incentivise large scale
renewable electricity projects but under the EMR this will
close to new schemes in 2017. A new mechanism called
Contract for Difference will be put in its place.
However, the government has said it will not support the
construction of new biomass facilities except in situations
where the proposed facility has a combined heat and power
function.
Projects to be supported under the Renewables Obligation
will also have strict new provisions to ensure the
sustainability of their fuel sources.
With the RO facing an end date of 2037 any accreditations
would receive less than 20 years of RO support if the
accreditation time limit were extended. But with the
CfD set to be introduced in 2017 it is the government’s
intention to start letting CfD contracts in early 2014 so
there will be transparency around support levels under
the CfD in the lead up to 2017. This it argues should help
alleviate the concern of some developers but it has not
stopped some of the major clients re-evaluating the sector.
Centrica announced in October 2012 that it was pulling out
of the sector once more as it shelved plans to build new
“The power and energy
sector has been forced to
re-evaluate its dependence
on costly and polluting
fossil fuel-based solutions.”
Environmental Policies to
Shape the World
continued
biomass plants next to its existing facilities in Brigg and
Roosecote due to the introduction of the new system and
what it saw as ‘the likely exclusion of dedicated biomass
projects from the new capacity mechanism.’
And despite winning planning permission to build a new
150 Mw biomass facility at Portbury Dock near Bristol
electricity company E.On announced in October 2013 that
it had cancelled the scheme.
Another problem with the development of large scale
biomass, biogas and waste facilities is one familiar to
developers of all major projects across the country.
The UK planning system is extremely robust and depending
on which side of the debate you are on tilted in favour of
the protestor or the developer.
Whichever may be the case there is common ground
between the two factions. Both complain that the planning
procedure in the UK is too onerous and developers and
contractors in particular bemoan the length of time it can
take to see schemes through to fruition. This is an area that
the government has been trying to bring under control but
still according to developers the planning process can take
so long to come to fruition, particularly on large and midscale operations, that companies can be left years waiting
for their project to be given the final go-ahead.
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Proposed schemes batting around local authority planning
departments for years might also be called in by the
Secretary of State, adding further time delays and causing
uncertainty among investors, uncertainty that has in itself
lead to the market not progressing as far or as fast as first
hoped.
There are many reasons why funding parties need a level of
surety in a market and although the biomass sector is far
from volatile there are enough variables to make investors
revisit their calculators.
Regulation & Legislation
The renewable and biomass energy sector is covered by a
raft of regulation and legislation. It is important that those
entering the market, including designers and contractors,
have a solid foundation in the most appropriate. These
include:-
Environmental Permitting Programme
This created a single regulatory system that integrates the
Waste Management licencing and Pollution Prevention
& Control to create a single system – the Environmental
Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007.
Waste Incineration Directive
The ‘thermal treatment’ of wastes is governed by the WID.
There are a number of specific wastes excluded from its
scope which include:• Vegetable waste from
agriculture and forestry
• Vegetable waste from food
processing as long as the
facility includes heat recovery
• Fibrous vegetable waste from
pulp making providing this
happens on-site and the heat
is recovered.
• Wood waste – except that
which has been treated with preservatives or coatings
containing heavy metals
or halogenated organic
compounds
• Cork waste
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The Environment Agency also does not consider untreated
virgin timber as waste.
Research facilities that treat less than 50 tonnes of waste
each year are also exempt.
The WID also imposes requirements on the types of waste
permitted at a plant, its delivery, reception, operating
conditions and equipment used. It also underlines emission
monitoring requirements and limits.
Building Regulations
Standard building regulations covering the design and
construction of structures and buildings will apply. Building
Regulations Part J covers combustion appliances and fuel
storage systems, fire safety, ventilation and flue design.
Clean Air Act
Within smoke control areas only specified manufactured
smokeless fuels can be used. Others including wood
and pellets can only be burned in tested and approved
appliances.
Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations
(England and Wales)
The PPCR regulate the emission of pollutants. Operating
within these regulations is allowed through permits that set
operating conditions
Large Combustion Plant Directive
This applies to all combustion plants with a thermal output
greater than 50Mw.
Ash dieback regulations
Regulation aimed at minimising the spread of the disease
with a primary aim to restrict the importation and planting
of ash trees.
Importing Wood Regulations
Plant health controls apply to a wide range of imported
wood products including material for use as wood fuel.
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Construction
In practice there can be a fair amount of movement
between some of the biomass fuel sources such as virgin
wood and energy crops while sludges from sewage
treatment facilities can also be used to fuel power
generation as well as combined heat and power plants.
Those facilities that use sewage sludge and food waste to
create the gas to fuel energy production are often called
‘Bio-gas’ facilities and are generally smaller scale.
Obviously the different type of fuel will have a bearing on
the scale of the facilities and the type of civil engineering
work required to build those facilities.
In general terms even the most basic wood/waste fired
biomass power station will require the construction of a
loading and fuel storage facility, boiler house/turbine hall
and ancillary buildings such as sub-stations and control
rooms.
For smaller scale power plants using food waste or sewage
sludge to produce gases to fuel the production process
then there will be some extra requirements including the
provision of digestion tanks, gas holders and handling
systems.
Contractors looking to work in the biomass power sector
will need to be able to prove their expertise in certain areas.
These will differ on a project to project basis but there
will be some constant requirements, some standard civil
engineering, some more specialist.
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Piling & Ground
Engineering
More often than not locations for biomass or biogas fuelled
power stations and combined heat and power facilities
will be located on brownfield, post-industrial or reclaimed
land within our towns and cities. Given the scale of some
of these schemes and the nature of the land on which
they are being built there is a likelihood that there will
be some element of ground engineering required prior to
construction.
The type of work is dependent on the quality of the land
but could include significant elements of lime/cement soil
stabilisation work or soil treatments including specialist
chemical injection. This is often most applicable to former
heavy industrial sites as a method of stabilising and treating
organic contaminants.
Other ground engineering expertise required on schemes
may be the installation of vibro compacted stone columns,
a system increasingly being used as a cost effective way of
consolidating ground and boosting its bearing capacity. This
system has proven effective beneath the lighter ancillary
buildings that might be expected on projects, but on large
scale schemes clearly the larger structures will need a
heavyweight solution.
Piling in contaminated ground should be an area of
expertise, particularly large diameter piles. CFA piled
solutions may be the most common but other piling
systems should not be ruled out, particularly given any
potential ground contamination.
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Shuttering, Fixing &
Concreting
Thanks to the complicated detailing around specialist
process engineering systems such as shredders, chippers,
boilers and flue supports there is a real need for skilled
shuttering operatives on biomass projects. Detailing can
be awkward and intricate around bases for conveyors and
access/service areas too.
In sewage and waste sludge digestion systems the concrete
digestion tanks and gas tank bases may also need specialist
attention. Bases are normally circular and dished toward
the centre so that any effluent can collect and feed through
into the next stage of the gas/power generation system.
Sacrificial formwork is often used to help create the
discharge detail.
Depending on the scale of the project experience of jumpforming could also be an advantage particularly where
large volumes of gas/fluid may be held. In some cases such
as the bio-energy sludge treatment digester being built
in Sheffield by ETM - a joint venture partnership between
AECOM and Galliford Try – for client Yorkshire Water, these
tanks are 22m high and 21.5m in diameter. They also
feature a cast in-situ reinforced concrete roof requiring
specialist formwork and falsework.
Steel reinforcement details and fixing can be difficult thanks
to the awkwardness of the concrete base shapes around
the processing systems and although in specific areas the
concentration of reinforcement can be dense, away from
these the general size, shape and density of steel is as would
be expected on any major civil engineering project.
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Concrete pours tend to be large thanks largely to the scale
of the schemes. Other than where local conditions dictate,
the use of specialist high strength or waterproof concrete is
not required but fibre reinforced concrete has been used in
isolation on some projects.
Despite the aggressive nature of some of the sewage
effluent and its exposure to concrete in the tank slabs high
acid/alkaline resistivity concrete is not deemed necessary in
the majority of cases.
Post-tensioning and Pre-stressed Concrete
Post-tensioning and pre-stressed concrete may sometimes
be used during the construction of biomass and combined
heat and power plants. The most commonly used is that
of post-tensioning where the method can be employed to
strengthen and reinforce concrete tank walls.
Steel Frame Construction
Aside from the large reinforced concrete structures biomass
power station construction will in all likelihood involve
some element of steel frame construction. Generally these
buildings are of the ‘crinkly tin shed’ variety, little more
than a shelter for the workforce or complicated switchgear
and routing systems and resembling the sort of structure
routinely seen on business parks around the country. In
some instances these ancillary and welfare buildings are
prefabricated, lifted into position in sections and connected
together in less than a day.
But on the larger projects such as the £120million 30Mw
waste wood fuelled biomass power station being built for
power provider E.On at Blackburn Meadows on the site of
the famous Tinsley Power Station in Sheffield, there are
considerable elements of steel frame, particularly around
the wood chipping plant and the fuel storage facility
capable of handling 4,000 Tonne of waste wood ready to
fire the station. This is a complicated steel structure typical
of these large scale projects that require real experience and
expertise to erect.
Ancillary buildings and those that surround the fuel storage
facilities and boiler house will of course need to comply
with the relevant building regulations with Part J covering
combustion appliances and fuel storage systems. These
may be beyond the experience of many civil engineering
contractors and should be closely monitored.
Steel Tank Construction
Food waste and sewage sludge installations such as the
food waste to energy facility constructed by Finning Power
and Energy at Avonmouth near Bristol for client GenEco,
feature specially constructed steel tanks which hold the
feed slurry before it is passed onto the digester tank.
These 5mm thick coated steel tanks are built by installing a
steel angle at the set circumference for the completed tank
on its concrete base slab. Sections of steel plate are fixed
to provide a single ring around the tank before the first lift
is jacked up and subsequent lifts installed. This process is
repeated until the tank has reached its design height.
The steel sections are coated with epoxy resin or FRP to
help improve their resistance to corrosion.
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Biomass Power Plant
Developers & Operators
The nationwide biomass market features a host of different
sized schemes of differing proposed final outputs. Although
the bulk of the market in the UK seems to be in the middle
order of the market with proposed outputs of between 250
Mw down to 50Mw there are those at either extremity of
the scale that will also provide a significant share of the
UK’s biomass potential, from fully blown, large scale power
station conversions to the almost cottage industry scale of
the smaller generators and water companies.
There are small scale project specific biomass installations
such as a CHP system for new schools but these have been
excluded from the study.
The following pages provide a snapshot of the leading
biomass power plant developers and operators at the time
of writing.
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SSE/Forth Ports
SSE had been assessing the potential to invest in the
conversion of its coal fired facilities to biomass and co-fired
plants.
It has claimed that technical issues with its current facilities,
the lack of depth in the biomass market, the amount
of biomass fuel needed to produce electricity and the
requirement to be involved in the upstream fuel supply
market as well as the abandonment of the ROC’s charging
system had forced the company to ditch any plans to
develop biomass based operations at its coal fired power
stations. It has announced though that it is progressing with
its multi-fuel facility at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire.
Under a strategic venture with Scottish port operator Forth
Ports it is continuing with plans to develop 100Mw capacity
wood fuelled biomass plants at three sites near Dundee,
Grangemouth and Rosyth. These plants will also be capable
of producing 260Mw of heat energy. It dropped plans to
develop a fourth, similar sized facility at Leith last year.
For further information visit: www.sse.com
E.On
Operating one of the country’s largest dedicated biomass
plants near Lockerbie, the electricity giant has shown its
commitment to the biomass market in the past. Alongside
the Lockerbie operation it has also converted its coal
burning power station near Ironbridge, Shropshire to run
on wood pellets until the end of its operating licence in
2015. It does not intend to re-licence the facility as a
dedicated biomass plant after that though, citing high
investment costs. It is currently developing the 30Mw
Blackburn Meadows biomass power plant in Sheffield and
has planning permission to build a new 150Mw facility at
Portbury Dock near Bristol. It has however since cancelled
the Portbury Facility.
For further information visit: www.eon-uk.com
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RWE npower
German group RWE has switched its Tilbury B coal fired
power station in Essex to run on 100% biomass fired using
sustainably sourced wood pellets and was looking at the
possibility of continuing biomass power production at
the site beyond the end of its operation licence in 2015.
However, it has since closed the entire facility following a
failure to secure government support.
Its dedicated renewable energy arm RWE npower
Renewables, the UK subsidiary of RWE Innogy, is building a
50Mw CHP in Fife, Scotland. This new plant will be fuelled
by 90% wood waste and 9% virgin material. Another similar
sized plant is planned in Lincolnshire.
For further information see: www.rwe.com
RES
RES has plans to deliver two biomass power station
developments at North Blythe in Northumberland and
Alexandra Dock in Liverpool. In July 2013 development
consent was agreed for the Blythe scheme, a £250 million
project to create a 100 MW facility. Construction is reported
to be due to commence in 2014 for a two-and-a-half year
building period.
For further information visit: www.res-group.com
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Helius Energy
A dedicated biomass energy development company it has
schemes at Avonmouth near Bristol, Southampton and
Speyside in Scotland.
For further information visit: www.heliusenergy.com
Gaia Power
Gaia Power has planning permission to build a proposed
45Mw power station on the site of the former coal fired
North Tees Power Station at Billingham.
For further information visit: www.gaiaheat.com
Eco2
Eco2 is a renewable energy specialist developer focussed
on initiating, developing and operating facilities throughout
the UK and Europe. Has four biomass facilities at operation,
development or consent stages in Eastern England.
For further information visit: www.eco2uk.com
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Drax
The north Yorkshire based company plans to transform itself
into a predominantly biomass fuelled electricity generating
company by converting three of its six generating units to
run on biomass. In a rolling programme of conversion it
expects its first to be converted by the end of the first half
of 2013 and the second a year after.
For further information visit: www.draxpower.plc.uk
Kedco
Renewable energy specialist Kedco has plans to identify,
develop, build and operate plants in the UK and Ireland. It
plans to start construction on a 12Mw waste wood fuelled
plant in Enfield, North London by the end of 2013.
For further information visit: www.kedco.com
Anglesea Aluminium
Plans to construct a biomass wood pellet fired power
station on land adjacent to its smelter in Holyhead,
Anglesey. It will generate up to 300Mw of renewable energy
and will import fuel through its own jetty at the Port of
Holyhead.
For further information visit: www.angleseyaluminium.co.uk
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Carron Energy
The trading arm of private energy group Carron Energy
has submitted proposals to build a £140m wood chip and
energy crop fuelled power station on a 10 acre brownfield
site at Newport Docks in South Wales.
For further information visit: www.carronenergy.com
Dalkia
An energy management joint venture between EDF and
Veolia Environment. It has built a facility near Bishop
Auckland and has plans to develop an energy centre
including biomass facility near Pollington, Yorkshire.
For further information visit: www.dalkia.co.uk
Express Energy
The renewable power generation specialist has plans
to develop a portfolio of biomass fuelled operations. It
currently has permission to build a 60Mw scheme at Tilbury
Docks in Essex and is hoping to gain approval for a 30Mw
scheme near Wolverhampton.
For further information visit: www.tilburygreenpower.com
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East Yorkshire Power
This company has plans and outline planning permission to
develop a 15Mw plant at Gameslack Farm on the outskirts
of Wetwang and Fimber in the Yorkshire Wolds.
Real Ventures
The renewable energy company has plans to develop
five renewable energy centres in the UK. The first two on
its schedule are to be 100% virgin wood fuelled 50Mw
biomass plants in Immingham and Hull. It has yet to
announce its preferred location and energy production type
for the three remaining centres.
For further information see: www.realventures.co.uk
MGT Power
An independent British company focussed on large scale
biomass projects which use sustainable forestry as a fuel
supply. It has plans to develop the 300Mw Tees Renewable
Energy Plant near Teesport, Cleveland.
For further information see: www.mgtteesside.com
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Water Companies
Given the easy access that water companies have to
sewage sludge with which to produce methane gas for
biogas and CHP plants, it is unsurprising that most of
the major companies are planning/have facilities under
construction or already operating.
Anglian Water has a strategy to use biosolids as fuel
and expand the use and production of methane as fuel
at its CHP’s while Southern Water has revealed a £30m
investment to produce around 10% of its annual electricity
consumption through the use of biogas installations.
Similarly Thames Water plans to invest £250million into
sewage treatment and associated electricity generation
processes. It aims to self-generate 20% of its total needs by
2015. It is installing additional CHP’s, digesters and sludge
incinerators to help meet this target.
United Utilities is another water company that hopes to
boost its use of renewable energy through its own sludge
processing. At present 14% of its business consumption is
through renewables but there are targets to increase this
amount.
Yorkshire Water is investing in a new sludge treatment and
bio-energy digester at its Blackburn Meadows facility while
Severn Trent Water produces much of its electricity at its
Stoke Bardolph site in Nottingham.
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UK Biomass power stations:
Currently Operating
List of both currently operational biomass power stations (≥2 MWe) and those currently in various stages of planning or
construction, in the UK, as of March 2013.New projects are constantly appearing, and not all of those planned will make it
through to fruition.
Project
Location
Company
Output
Fuel
Balcas Timber
Enniskillen, NI Balcas Wood 2.5 MWe
Balcas Timber
Invergordon Balcas Wood 8 MWe
Eccleshall Biomass Eccleshall, Staffs Miscanthus 2.6 MWe
Ely Ely, Cambridgeshire EPRL Straw 38 MWe
Eye Eye, Suffolk EPRL Poultry litter 12.7 MWe
Glanford Scunthorpe, N Lincs. EPRL MBM, Poultry litter 13.5 MWe
Goosey Lodge
Northants Biomass 16 MWe
Grainger Sawmill Enniskeane, Ireland Wood
2 MWe
Newry Biomass Newry, NI Kedco Wood PDM Group Widnes, Cheshire PDM Group Food residues 9.5 MWe
Slough Heat and Power
Slough, Berks SSE
Wood + fibre
35 MWe +12 MWe
Stevens Croft Lockerbie, Scotland E.ON Wood Thetford Thetford, Norfolk
EPRL Chicken litter 38.5 MWe
Tilbury B Tilbury, Essex RWE Wood pellets 750 MWe
Tyrone Strabane, NI Tyrone Energy Recycled wood 2.1 MWe
UPM Caledonian Irvine, Scotland UPM Paper mill residues
26 MWe
UPM Shotton Shotton, Wales UPM Papermill sludge 20 MWe
Westfield Fife, Scotland EPRL
Chicken litter 9.8 MWe
Western Wood Energy Port Talbot, Wales Eco2 Wood 14 MWe
Wilton 10 Middlesborough
SembCorp Wood 30 MWe
2 MWe (+2MWe)
44 MWe
Total: 1,090.2 MWe
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UK Biomass power stations:
In planning/under
construction
Project
Location
Company
Fuel
Output
Avonmouth Avonmouth Helius Pellets Billingham Teesside Gaia Power Recycled wood
100 MWe
45 MWe
Blackburn Meadows Sheffield E.ON Wood 30 MWe
Brigg North Lincolnshire Eco2 Straw 40 MWe
Drax Yorkshire
Drax Pellets 2,000 MWe
Dundee Dundee Forth Energy Wood 100 MWe
Enfield Biomass London Kedco Wood 12 MWe CHP
Ferrybridge Nr Castleford SSE Multifuel, RDF 68 MWe
Grangemouth Grangemouth Forth Energy Wood 100 MWe
Holyhead Holyhead Anglesey Aluminium Wood 300 MWe
Ironbridge Ironbridge E.ON Pellets 1,000 MWe
Rosyth Rosyth Forth Energy Wood 100 MWe
Mendlesham
Mendlesham, Suffolk Eco2 Straw 40 MWe
Nevis Power Newport Welsh Power Biomass 50 MWe
Pollington Pollington Dalkia Bioenergy 52 MWe
Rosyth Rosyth Forth Energy Wood 120 MWe
Rothes Distillers CoRD Rothes, Moray Helius DDG 7.2 MWe CHP
Sleaford
Lincolnshire Eco2 Straw 40 MWe
Stallingborough Stallingborough, Lincs. Helius/RWE npower
Wood 65 MWe
Tansterne
Hull GB Bio Straw 12.5 MWe
Tees REP Middlesborough MGT Power Wood 300 MWe
Tilbury Green Power Tilbury Express Energy Biomass & SRF 60 MWe
Markinch CHP Fife RWE npower Wood residues 49.9 MWe CHP
Wetwang Yorkshire E Yorks Power
Wood & straw 15 MWe
Total: 4, 706.6 MWe
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UK Biomass power stations:
Proposed projects
Location
Company
Blyth Blyth RE Systems Wood 100 MWe
Claycross Derbyshire Kedco Wood 12 MWe CHP
Drakelow Drakelow E.ON Wood
Greenpower.54 Wolverhampton Express Energy Biomass & SRF 30 MWe
Hull Hull Real Ventures Wood
49 MWe
Peterborough Peterborough P’borough RE. Agricultural waste 66 MWe
Southampton Southampton Helius Pellets 100 MWe
Thetford Wood Thetford EPRL Wood 40 MWe
Project
Fuel
Output
Total: 397 MWe
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Infrastructure Horizons
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with construction companies to help them improve skills,
increase their competitive edge, and respond to the many
challenges employers face - from the low-carbon agenda,
through to reducing costs on-site and recruiting the best
and brightest talent for their sector.
www.cskills.org