Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Plant

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A Biomass Waste combined heat and power (CHP) EFW facility Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Plant uses a feedstock of Wood Waste to generate 29 MWe and up to 25 MWth. The facility is located on the site of the former Tinsley cooling towers in Sheffield, and the Wood Waste is sourced locally within a 50-mile of the plant.


Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Plant
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Operator E-On UK Blackburn Meados Ltd
Capacity 30 MWe
Feedstock Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence) LP3131TA
ROC Yes
CfD
CHP Yes

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total
2017 202183 0 0 0 202183
2018 214135 0 0 0 214135
2019 200098 0 0 0 200098
2020 149665 0 0 0 149665
2021 207643 0 0 0 207643
2022 199548 0 0 0 199548


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2017 4500 2.23% 5265 2.60%
2018 3636 1.70% 5324 2.49%
2019 4463 2.23% 5116 2.56%
2020 3580 2.39% 3968 2.65%
2021 4084 1.97% 5267 2.54%
2022 4669 2.34% 5207 2.61%

Blackburn Meadows. BDP, 2018.
Blackburn Meadows. BDP, 2018.


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Summary

A Biomass Waste combined heat and power (CHP) EFW facility Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Plant uses a feedstock of Wood Waste to generate 29 MWe and up to 25 MWth. The facility is located on the site of the former Tinsley cooling towers in Sheffield, and the Wood Waste is sourced locally within a 50-mile of the plant. The generated electricity is exported to the national grid and the heat is supplied as hot water to local businesses through a district heating network, including the Sheffield Arena and Forgemaster Steel Works[2].

The Blackburn Meadows facility is operated by E.ON Energy and became operational in 2015 after beginning construction in 2011[3].

Plant

The facility had a 10 MW battery installed after it was awarded a contract to support the national grid’s stability requirements, which became operational in 2017[2].

The unique architectural work was undertaken by BDP, which includes an orange translucent clad boiler house that is internally illuminated[3].

The facility cost £120 million to develop[4]. It has an Andritz boiler.

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage[5] received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report and for the previous 3 years for 2020/21 was reported by Ofgem as below[6]:

Year Waste Wood (m3) Waste Wood (t) Straw Miscanthus Arboricultrual Waste Sawmill Residue Foresrty Residue Round Wood Short Rotation Coppice MBM Other Material
2020/21 0 142827 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2019/20 0 203490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018/19 0 208327 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2017/18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit LP3131TA, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2023. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 199,999.72t. Where this tonnage exceeds that reported in year of the corresponding annual report, this may be due to the following reasons:

  • Tonnage may have been received but not incinerated, i.e. the material is held pending incineration (the operator return to the EA reports as received whereas the annual report focuses on when the waste is incinerated.)
  • Material may have been received into the site but treated in some other way than incineration.
  • Material may have been received on the but transferred out of site for disposal/treatment at another site rather than incineration on the site.
EWC Code Origin of Waste Tonnes In
19 12 07 Staffordshire 2242.64
19 12 07 Northamptonshire 994.06
19 12 07 North West 11690.08
19 12 07 Lincolnshire 1981.80
19 12 07 Hampshire 3733.08
19 12 07 Birmingham 2769.56
19 12 07 Worcestershire 1190.30
19 12 07 Surrey 498.60
19 12 07 North Yorkshire 1034.38
19 12 07 East Midlands 51353.74
19 12 07 Yorks & Humber 69510.88
19 12 07 Wolverhampton 1016.26
19 12 07 Greater London 4485.66
19 12 07 Worcester 1051.64
19 12 07 Nottinghamshire 2533.90
19 12 07 Leicestershire 427.00
19 12 07 Buckinghamshire 2458.52
19 12 07 East Riding of Yorkshire 23433.96
19 12 07 Doncaster 2884.92
19 12 07 Warwickshire 14708.74


References

  1. ↑ Blackburn Meadows CHP Site PhotoAll Rights Reserved
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 E.ON, 2020. Blackburn Meadows | Business Case Studies | E.ON. Online. Eonenergy.com. [Accessed 6 April 2020].
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 BDP., 2018. Blackburn Meadows Biomass Plant - BDP.Com. Online. Bdp.com. [Accessed 6 April 2020].
  4. ↑ Bioenergy Insight, 2014. E.ON's Blackburn Meadows Biomass Plant Generates Electricity. Online. Bioenergy Insight. [Accessed 6 April 2020].
  5. ↑ In the case of EfW plants with gasification technology the figures are reported in terms of cubic metres of syngas produced rather than tonnes used
  6. ↑ Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2020-21
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