Boston Energy Production Facility

Also known as Biomass UK No 3, Boston Energy Production Facility is a Biomass EfW facility based on Wood Waste or RDF designed to export 11.7MWe of power.

Boston Energy Production Facility Under Construction
Site Location Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	Biomass UK No3
Capacity	11.7 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood/RDF
EPR (Waste Licence)	UP3131DF
ROC
CfD
CHP	Unkwn

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2019	8772	0	0	0	8772
2020	6897	0	1147	0	8044
2021	60	0	0	0	60
2022	10145	0	11814	0	21959

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2019	66	0.75%	149	1.70%
2020	483	6.00%	224	2.78%
2022	1189	5.41%	1077	4.90%

Summary

Also known as Biomass UK No 3, Boston Energy Production Facility is a Biomass EfW facility based on Wood Waste or RDF designed to export 11.7MWe of power. The plant was developed by Aviva Investors and was reported in November 2024 as being close to being mothballed [1]

Plant

The plant is based on a gasification technology via a Fluidised Bed with power generation via a steam boiler and turbine designed to process up to 86,400 tonnes per annum ata nominal capacity of 10.8 tonnes per hour. The plant remainder closed much of 2021 to allow for an upgrade programme and did not generate any power in the year.

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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	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 UP3131DF, 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: 11,375.18t.

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 10	South Kesteven	1016.24
19 12 10	Glasgow City	22.70
19 12 10	Lancashire	762.98
19 12 10	East Midlands	2629.61
19 12 10	Lincolnshire	764.20
19 12 10	Hartlepool	782.34
19 12 10	Boston	644.27
19 12 10	Cumberland	638.68
19 12 10	Doncaster	96.60
19 12 10	Derbyshire	1035.00
19 12 10	Breckland	24.42
19 12 10	Nottingham	731.50
19 12 10	East Riding of Yorkshire	1398.86
19 12 10	Leeds	827.78