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 2024. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 175,846.74t.

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 05 03	Bromley	561.38
19 12 07	Swale	16899.62
17 02 01	Sevenoaks	82.94
20 01 38	Thanet	533.46
20 01 38	Slough	281.68
17 02 01	Ashford	254.52
17 02 01	Swale	17953.88
15 01 03	Bromley	26.53
19 12 07	East Sussex	60.76
19 12 07	Ashford	9393.32
19 12 07	Kent	13957.34
19 12 07	Bromley	560.90
17 02 01	Kent	11093.55
20 01 38	Kent	1204.95
17 02 01	Hammersmith and Fulham	18364.52
17 02 01	Greenwich	805.68
15 01 03	Kent	19.60
19 12 07	Greenwich	2749.06
17 02 01	East Sussex	2491.54
19 12 07	Dartford	5634.42
19 12 07	Essex	1303.06
15 01 03	Swale	860.42
17 02 01	Reigate and Banstead	5680.08
17 02 01	Dartford	1954.88
19 05 03	Swale	957.82
20 01 38	Bromley	17993.78
20 01 38	Swale	32916.73
17 02 01	Bromley	1125.00
19 12 07	Thanet	2450.36
17 02 01	Windsor and Maidenhead	636.40
20 01 38	Windsor and Maidenhead	651.92
19 12 07	Windsor and Maidenhead	2917.76
19 12 07	Slough	1130.36
19 12 07	Sevenoaks	2338.52

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.