Tyseley ERF

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Located in Birmingham, Tyseley ERF has a permitted operational capacity of 350,000 tonnes per annum, exporting 25 MW to the grid after the plants own power needs are supplied for. The plant is owned and operated by Veolia. The waste feedstock utilised at the plant is primarily Municipal Solid Waste originating from Birmingham.

Tyseley ERF Operational
Site Location See Residual EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Waste Licence	WP3239SJ
Operator	Veolia
Region	West Midlands
Operational Capacity	441ktpa
Is site R1?	fal
When was R1 Granted?	2015-03-06
What was the R1 value	0.62
Electrical Capacity	30.00MWe
Number of Lines	2
Number of Turbines	1
CHP	No
Technology Approach	EfW
Funding Type	PPP

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	HH	C&I	Clin	RDF	Total
2016	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2017	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2018	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2019	336460.00	1122.00	2251.00	0.00	342761.00
2020	351684.00	3547.00	1748.00	0.00	360328.00
2021	371404.00	2146.00	1618.00	0.00	378950.00
2022	357168.00	2565.00	2216.00	0.00	365281.00
2023	351932.00	1233.00	2670.00	0.00	358825.00

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2016	73293.00	0.00%	8231.00	0.00%
2017	68786.00	0.00%	8329.00	0.00%
2018	69805.00	0.00%	8402.00	0.00%
2019	72127.00	21.04%	8374.00	2.44%
2020	75871.00	21.06%	8838.00	2.45%
2021	78027.00	20.59%	8513.00	2.25%
2022	77152.00	21.12%	8709.00	2.38%
2023	72796.00	20.29%	8214.00	2.29%

Tyseley EfW Veolia. Birmingham Live, 2014.

Summary

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Located in Birmingham, Tyseley ERF has a permitted operational capacity of 350,000 tonnes per annum, exporting 25 MW to the grid after the plants own power needs are supplied for. The plant is owned and operated by Veolia. The waste feedstock utilised at the plant is primarily Municipal Solid Waste originating from Birmingham.

In June 2020, Veolia announced plans to alter the Environmental Permit of the site which now allows the plant to accept a maximum of 10,000 tonnes a year of 'orange bagged' healthcare waste.

History

Veolia signed a 25-year contract with Birmingham City Council in 1993 for the delivery of the facility. The facility was built in 1996 by Veolia, just to the east of Birmingham City Centre in order to treat waste that cannot be re-used, recycled or composted. Prior to the Waste Incineration Directive came into force in 2005, Fichtner provided engineering and project management support to Veolia to enable the plant to meet the new standards of the WID.

Plant

Veolia ES Birmingham has a Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) contract under a government scheme to support renewable energy, subsequently a large proportion of this financial benefit passes to the City Council. Tyseley ERF comprises of 2 lines, each able to process 23.5 tonnes of waste per hour, equivalent to 386,000 tonnes per annum, with a turbo-generator exporting 25 MW to the grid.

Local Authority Data

The table below lists those local authorities who have recorded their tonnage on WasteDataFlow as sending their Waste to this site (either directly or via a transfer station) for the most recent financial year, data was updated on 2023-04-26. 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). The total Local Authority waste received by the plant in the period was: 345,883.86t

A 'zero return' or a below expected return, when compared to the EA Data below indicates that either:

• no local authority tonnage was recorded/no tonnage was sent to the site in the period (but has been listed as it may have previously received tonnage from a local authority) or
• a result of the plant being recently commissioned and actually having received no tonnage or
• a lower than expected tonnage maybe a result of a local authority splitting their tonnage over multiple sites, having less tonnage to send than might be anticipated or
• it may be 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 or
• the local authority may not have correctly entered the site's details on WasteDataFlow

Authority	Tonnage
Birmingham City Council	342359.360
Central Bedfordshire	2879.090
Hertfordshire County Council	27.930
Shropshire	130.820
Solihull MBC	2.640
Telford and Wrekin Council	436.480
West Berkshire District Council	47.540

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Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit WP3239SJ, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data used is from the most recent returns. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: t.

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