Wilton 10

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A Biomass Waste EFW facility Wilton 10 is based upon the co-firing of Wood Waste, virgin wood, forestry processing rejects and energy crops to generate 30MWe and 10MWth of energy for use in the grid and the adjacent Sembcorp site, as an ancillary operation to their 197MW Wilton Power Station[1].


Wilton 10
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Operator Sembcorp Utilities (UK) Ltd
Capacity 35.2 MWe
Feedstock Waste Wood/Virgin
EPR (Waste Licence) NP3838LV
ROC Yes
CfD
CHP Yes

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total
2017 39893 0 0 129642 169535
2019 62336 0 0 176895 239231
2022 30651 0 0 0 207668


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2017 2841 1.68% 3578 2.11%
2019 3742 1.56% 8195 3.43%
2022 4101 1.97% 6706 3.23%

Picture of Wilton 10
Picture of Wilton 10


Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility Wilton 10 is based upon the co-firing of Wood Waste, virgin wood, forestry processing rejects and energy crops to generate 30MWe and 10MWth of energy for use in the grid and the adjacent Sembcorp site, as an ancillary operation to their 197MW Wilton Power Station. The plant consumes up to 300,000 tonnes per year of material, of which around 80,000 tonnes is Wood Waste supplied by UK Waste Wood Recycling, a subsidiary of Enva, from a nearby separate site.

The Wilton 10 facility was developed by Sembcorp Energy UK and was operational in the autumn of 2007 and at the time was the first large scale biomass power station to be built. It is located in Teeside on the Wilton International Industrial Estate and is discrete from Wilton 11 which is a Residual Waste EFW project.

Plant

Built under an EPC contract with Foster wheeler for a reported $55m (excluding the turbine and power island supplied by Siemens), the standard combustion technology is based on a Fluidised Bed system.

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage[2] 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[3]:

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 66932 0 0 65851 50419 19669 23824 0 0 0
2019/20 0 69345 0 0 64412 31216 30646 46816 0 0 0
2018/19 0 70580 0 0 66395 56026 24940 26954 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 NP3838LV, 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: 30,918.48t. 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 Cumbria 30918.48


The Wood Waste is exclusively supplied by UK Waste Wood Recycling (previously owned by Hadfield, acquired by Enva in 2018[4]), which sources much of the Wood Waste from Waste Disposal Authorities.

References

  1. Power Technology Website
  2. 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
  3. Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2020-21
  4. https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/enva-announces-hadfield-wood-recyclers-acquisition/