View source for North Yard EfW (Devonport EfW CHP Facility)

[[File:Devonport.png|300px|left|MVV Devonport]]
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==Summary==
An [[EfW]] facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an [[ERF]] based on its [[R1]] status. Devonport has a permitted operational capacity of 265,000 tonnes per annum, and is owned and operated by [[MVV Environment]]. Delivery of waste is primarily by road and the facility processes primarily residual [[Household Waste]] and some [[Commercial Waste]]. It is located in North Yard, next to Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport.

==History==
The Devonport facility was built primarily to service a 25 year [[PFI]] contract signed in March 2011 with [[South West Devon Waste Partnership]] (or [[SWDWP]]) which comprises [[Torbay Council]], [[Plymouth City Council]], and [[Devon County Council]] with anticipated input of around 163,000 tonnes per annum from these authorities. The site began accepting waste in September 2015, and under a combined heat and power supply agreement with the adjacent naval base, started supplying heat and reached full operations in January 2016. <ref>[https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/full-operations-begin-at-plymouth-chp-plant/ Letsrecycle Article]</ref>

==Plant==
Built by [[MVV Umwelts]]'s in-house contracting company with civil engineering support contract from [[Keir]] the construction started in mid 2012 and was delivered at a reported lifetime cost of GBP £389m<ref>[https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/kier-cleared-to-start-40m-devonport-incinerator Construction Index Article]</ref> and reported<ref>[https://resource.co/article/controversial-plymouth-incinerator-hits-full-operation-10758 Resource Article]</ref> capital cost of GBP £188m.
The plant comprises standard combustion technology, air cooled grate, generating super-heated steam <ref>[https://www.mvv.de/en/about-us/group-of-companies/mvv-umwelt/shareholdings/mvv-environment-ltd/devonport-efw-chp-facility/facts-and-figures MVV Devonport Website]</ref>. It is configured to run on residual [[Household Waste]] and [[Commercial Waste]] to deliver 24MWe of power. [[MVV Environmental]] openly publish their annual plant performance report <ref>[https://www.mvv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Ueber_uns/en/geschaeftsfelder_1/environment_1/plymouth/linksanddownloads/annual_performance_reports/Annual_Performance_Report_MED_2018.pdf Annual Plant Performance Report]</ref>

==Local Authority Users==
The following data comes from [[WasteDataFlow]] for the financial year 2018/19 and represents those local authorities recorded as putting tonnage into the site (either directly or via a transfer station). The tonnage received cannot be directly compared with the stated historical tonnage received and recorded in the [[EA]] statistics as these are recorded on a calendar year basis (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018). A 'zero return' below indicates no local authority tonnage was recorded, most likely a result of the plant being recently commissioned and actually having received no tonnage. Equally, lower than expected tonnage maybe a result of either a new plant being in 'ramp up' towards full capacity after construction, or may be a result of plant shut down and subsequent re-start in a year.
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