UPM Shotton Boiler 7

A Biomass EfW facility, UPM Shotton Boiler 7 is a Combined Heat and Power(CHP) EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 24.8 MWe from a Biomass feedstock of waste paper, fibre, sludge and Wood Waste.

UPM Shotton Boiler 7 Operational
Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	UPM-Kymmene Ltd
Capacity	24.8 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood/Other
EPR (Waste Licence)	BT4885IT
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Yes

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2021	0	0	0	271018	271018
2022	0	0	36850	0	258146

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2021	5875	2.17%	28311	10.45%
2022	8303	3.22%	15151	5.87%

UPM Shotton Biomass Facility

Summary

A Biomass EfW facility, UPM Shotton Boiler 7 is a Combined Heat and Power(CHP) EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 24.8 MWe from a Biomass feedstock of waste paper, fibre, sludge and Wood Waste. The plant provides up to 70% of the paper mill's energy production. Most of the energy is consumed in the manufacture of mechanical pulp, pumping and paper drying. In 2016 a second steam turbine was brought on line at the facility which utilises excess steam from the biomass CHP plant.

Plant

The technology in use at the plant is a bubbling Fluidised Bed system. The biomass facility cost an estimated £59m.

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 2018/19 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
2018/19	0	151080	0	0	54355	22532	0	0	0	0	98576

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit BT4885IT, 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: 355,911.54t.

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	Hillingdon	3208.46
17 02 01	Telford and Wrekin	1360.22
17 02 01	Newham	440.82
17 02 01	Wigan	405.12
17 02 01	Kirklees	1894.12
17 02 01	Northampton	1071.48
17 02 01	Bradford	3898.43
17 02 01	Salford	13522.84
17 02 01	Redditch	568.64
20 03 01	Doncaster	18238.12
17 02 01	Shropshire	4816.20
03 03 05	Flintshire	11075.16
17 02 01	Cheshire East	185.44
17 02 01	Tameside	576.34
20 03 01	Dorset	27028.96
17 02 01	Manchester	1982.76
17 02 01	Bury	788.60
17 02 01	Mid Sussex	63.88
17 02 01	Solihull	1761.68
17 02 01	Knowsley	5782.48
17 02 01	Powys	870.90
20 03 01	Hambleton	6511.14
17 02 01	Ceredigion	372.54
17 02 01	Conwy	1080.40
17 02 01	Hertsmere	295.96
17 02 01	Cambridgeshire	228.58
17 02 01	Flintshire	1411.98
17 02 01	Hampshire	2037.86
03 03 05	Cheshire East	10589.56
17 02 01	Derby	3130.68
17 02 01	Sefton	505.50
17 02 01	Newcastle-under-Lyme	1125.24
17 02 01	North Lincolnshire	911.98
17 02 01	Stockport	562.42
17 02 01	Wiltshire	301.78
17 02 01	Enfield	3088.00
17 02 01	Wirral	5520.05
17 02 01	Oxfordshire	3769.54
17 02 01	Erewash	343.25
17 02 01	Sheffield	156.20
20 03 01	Hartlepool	483.20
17 02 01	Spelthorne	11.56
17 02 01	Caerphilly	408.94
17 02 01	Bristol, City of	6280.38
17 02 01	Lancashire	3344.90
17 02 01	Trafford	1527.80
20 03 01	Cheshire East	39686.54
20 03 01	Wolverhampton	21128.72
17 02 01	Epsom and Ewell	2702.54
17 02 01	Lincolnshire	95.26
17 02 01	Hinckley and Bosworth	6536.07
17 02 01	Dacorum	3411.80
17 02 01	Gloucester	2370.00
17 02 01	Halton	1525.18
20 03 01	High Peak	8849.54
17 02 01	Gwynedd	6680.11
20 03 01	Gwynedd	2115.48
20 03 01	Warrington	17994.60
17 02 01	Bolton	242.72
17 02 01	Rushcliffe	269.52
17 02 01	Cheshire West and Chester	2602.53
20 03 01	Tyne and Wear	365.22
17 02 01	Doncaster	66.94
17 02 01	Isle of Anglesey	1511.88
17 02 01	Blackburn with Darwen	17.22
17 02 01	Wolverhampton	7308.98
17 02 01	Swansea	62.96
17 02 01	Hackney	15.12
17 02 01	Brent	4929.34
17 02 01	Denbighshire	1271.44
17 02 01	Leeds	6179.95
17 02 01	East Sussex	263.72
20 03 01	Denbighshire	10592.96
17 02 01	Staffordshire	1368.20
17 02 01	East Riding of Yorkshire	251.74
17 02 01	East Staffordshire	502.28
17 02 01	Barking and Dagenham	49.86
20 03 01	Caerphilly	1579.24
17 02 01	Norfolk	1207.12
17 02 01	Dorset	43.04
17 02 01	West Sussex	459.66
17 02 01	Aylesbury Vale	1987.72
17 02 01	Stoke-on-Trent	6680.54
17 02 01	Merton	2825.96
17 02 01	Elmbridge	2475.94
17 02 01	Rugby	53.86
17 02 01	Oldham	1024.36
20 03 01	Stoke-on-Trent	526.75
17 02 01	Hertfordshire	1052.41
17 02 01	Breckland	570.06
17 02 01	Birmingham	315.54
03 03 05	Norfolk	13267.70
17 02 01	Nottinghamshire	352.34
20 03 01	Scarborough	8770.42
17 02 01	Liverpool	18.34
20 03 01	Staffordshire Moorlands	8112.51
17 02 01	Wrexham	79.52