Ridham Biomass Power Plant

A Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Biomass EfW facility Ridham Biomass Power Plant is based on consuming up to 172,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste to produce 23 MW power to be exported to the national grid.

Ridham Biomass Power Plant Operational
Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	MVV Environment Ridham Ltd
Capacity	25.42 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)	TP3536CL
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Yes

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2017	143751	0	0	2438	146189
2018	177041	0	0	0	177041
2019	148602	0	0	0	148602
2020	185432	0	0	0	185432
2021	177247	0	0	0	177247
2022	154069	0	0	0	154069

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2017	7398	5.06%	1623	1.11%
2018	9707	5.48%	1763	1.00%
2019	8254	5.55%	1467	0.99%
2020	12652	6.82%	2109	1.14%
2021	11078	6.25%	1947	1.10%
2022	9194	5.97%	1767	1.15%

MVV Ridham Biomass EfW. Lets Recycle, 2016.

Summary

A Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Biomass EfW facility Ridham Biomass Power Plant is based on consuming up to 172,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste to produce 23 MW power to be exported to the national grid. The heat that is produced is either fed into the district heating network or is used as process steam for industrial processes. The facility is located at Ridham Dock near Sittingbourne in the county of Kent.

The facility was developed and continues to be operated by MVV Environment, becoming fully operational in November 2016.

Plant

The facility cost approximately £126 million to develop.

MVV Environment acted also as the EPC contractor for this project, the design of the facility comprises of 1 stream process with air cooling grate.

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage 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:

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	186932	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	0	139326	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	0	173604	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 TP3536CL, 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: 154,088.01t. 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
17 02 01	Swale	14117.66
17 02 01	Sevenoaks	273.00
19 12 07	Surrey Heath	639.54
19 12 07	Merton	99.20
19 12 07	Maidstone	459.28
19 12 07	Buckinghamshire	25.08
15 01 03	Swale	135.00
17 02 01	Lambeth	23.30
20 01 38	Hastings	2303.10
20 01 38	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	158.62
19 12 07	Milton Keynes	87.22
17 02 01	Eastbourne	1351.95
19 12 07	Tunbridge Wells	1.98
19 12 07	Central Bedfordshire	16.82
20 01 38	Oxford	129.72
19 12 07	Sevenoaks	1372.00
15 01 03	Dover	5.74
17 02 01	Tonbridge and Malling	9.28
17 02 01	Merton	3722.72
19 12 07	West Berkshire	197.28
19 12 07	South Oxfordshire	97.20
17 02 01	Harrow	16.70
19 12 07	Essex	1527.00
17 02 01	Canterbury	65.12
20 01 38	Canterbury	315.42
19 12 07	Dartford	6852.12
15 01 03	Ashford	1.58
19 12 07	Hounslow	98.60
19 12 07	Dover	7.70
17 02 01	Oxford	78.28
15 01 03	Maidstone	0.84
19 12 07	Wealden	336.58
19 12 07	Windsor and Maidenhead	18.04
19 12 07	Tonbridge and Malling	490.30
19 12 07	North Hertfordshire	247.46
20 01 38	Sevenoaks	4.84
20 01 38	Maidstone	9049.68
20 01 38	Slough	567.00
19 12 07	Ashford	7240.88
20 01 38	Buckinghamshire	17.58
17 02 01	Milton Keynes	46.26
20 01 38	Dartford	7.84
17 02 01	Kent	2334.00
17 02 01	Medway	364.24
19 12 07	Thurrock	19.30
17 02 01	Crawley	3238.57
17 02 01	Brighton and Hove	207.56
17 02 01	Hammersmith and Fulham	8983.00
20 01 38	Tonbridge and Malling	989.04
17 02 01	Reigate and Banstead	2972.00
17 02 01	Greenwich	645.74
19 12 07	Lambeth	432.68
15 01 03	Kent	39.40
20 01 38	Windsor and Maidenhead	20.22
19 12 07	Greenwich	6816.76
17 02 01	Ashford	1335.98
20 01 38	Kent	231.00
20 01 38	Bromley	8302.20
17 02 01	Enfield	3234.98
19 12 07	Kent	2749.30
17 02 01	Basingstoke and Deane	26.38
19 12 07	Hastings	35.66
19 12 07	Croydon	1940.16
20 01 38	West Berkshire	373.14
20 01 38	Greenwich	494.64
19 12 07	Slough	6682.30
17 02 01	South Oxfordshire	22.96
19 12 07	Reigate and Banstead	22.00
20 01 38	Basingstoke and Deane	293.40
19 12 07	North Warwickshire	17.66
17 02 01	Dartford	3328.76
20 01 38	Welwyn Hatfield	5.66
17 02 01	Maidstone	294.72
17 02 01	East Sussex	1536.00
20 01 38	Thanet	2186.46
17 02 01	Thurrock	40.70
17 02 01	Wealden	13.58
15 01 03	Thanet	1.92
19 12 07	Brentwood	262.38
17 02 01	Tunbridge Wells	48.12
17 02 01	Hastings	189.92
19 12 07	Oxford	39.14
17 02 01	Thanet	18.84
19 12 07	Medway	90.16
17 02 01	Bromley	600.66
17 02 01	City of London	88.12
17 02 01	Bedford	49.14
19 12 07	Canterbury	30.20
20 01 38	Medway	52.28
15 01 03	Bromley	32.00
19 12 07	City of London	1473.74
20 01 38	Ashford	64.86
19 12 07	Crawley	52.76
19 12 07	Gravesham	38.06
20 01 38	Swale	22862.86
17 02 01	Dover	3.84
19 12 07	Swale	10457.47
17 02 01	Hounslow	413.30
17 02 01	Surrey Heath	342.66
20 01 38	Dover	5.54
19 12 07	Bromley	2741.46
17 02 01	Slough	1682.92

The Wood Waste tonnage received is locally sourced and comprises of Category B and Category C Wood Waste that cannot be reused, such as processed wood, wood with a low to medium degree of contamination such as chipboard, fibreboard and old furniture, and wood from the construction and demolition of buildings.