Great Blakenham EfW

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Great Blakenham has permitted operational capacity of 269,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Suez it was part refinanced by Suffolk County Council in late 2018 for 22.6% of the value of the plant. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste

Great Blakenham EfW Operational
Site Location See Residual EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Waste Licence	WP3438HZ
Operator	SUEZ
Region	Eastern
Operational Capacity	295ktpa
Is site R1?	fal
When was R1 Granted?	2014-05-06
What was the R1 value	0.83
Electrical Capacity	26.00MWe
Number of Lines	2
Number of Turbines	1
CHP	No
Technology Approach	EfW
Funding Type	PFI

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	HH	C&I	Clin	RDF	Total
2016	234974.92	822.58	1876.12	28865.74	266539.36
2017	244731.60	864.54	2253.38	19345.18	267194.70
2018	231780.00	1285.00	2345.00	30757.00	266167.00
2019	240953.00	25836.00	3983.00	0.00	270776.00
2020	249840.00	38469.00	3077.00	0.00	291389.00
2021	233448.00	54170.00	3991.00	0.00	291609.00
2022	219661.00	58568.00	4808.00	0.00	283037.00
2023	253294.00	33625.00	7689.00	0.00	294608.00

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2016	49830.48	18.70%	6250.64	2.35%
2017	49033.62	18.35%	6264.84	2.34%
2018	62881.86	23.62%	6508.28	2.45%
2019	47389.00	17.50%	5754.00	2.13%
2020	58294.00	20.01%	6300.00	2.16%
2021	53574.00	18.37%	7150.00	2.45%
2022	48055.00	16.98%	7046.00	2.49%
2023	52061.00	17.67%	7386.00	2.51%

Suez Great Blakenham

Summary

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Great Blakenham has permitted operational capacity of 269,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Suez it was part refinanced by Suffolk County Council in late 2018 for 22.6% of the value of the plant. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste

History

The Great Blakenham facility was built primarily to service a 25 year PFI contract signed in October 2010 with Suffolk County Council for 170,000 tonnes per annum with later short term capacity offered to Norfolk County Council for 40,000 tonnes per annum to 2021, and then at a reduced rate to 2027. It is located on the outskirts of Ipswich and has been operational since 2014.

Plant

Built by CNIM which started in 2012 and was delivered in June 2014 at a reported £167m capital cost based on the refinancing value. The plant comprises 2 lines via standard combustion technology Martin Reverse Acting Grate, generating super-heated steam, and is configured to run on primarily residual Household Waste and similar residual Commercial Waste.

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: 249,807.61t

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
Braintree District Council	1059.870
Castle Point Borough Council	792.532
East Suffolk Council	4120.620
Essex County Council	6494.713
Greenwich LB	609.600
Ipswich Borough Council	1599.150
Lewes District Council	14.420
Mid Suffolk District Council	2538.050
Norfolk County Council	26383.510
Suffolk County Council	203571.684
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council	29.510
West Suffolk Council	2593.950

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Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit WP3438HZ, 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: 294,607.49t.

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
20 03 01	Norfolk	8606.08
18 01 04	Suffolk	3509.38
20 03 03	Suffolk	1033.52
15 02 03	Norfolk	251.48
20 03 07	Suffolk	122589.42
18 01 04	Essex	4420.28
19 12 12	Norfolk	2228.46
20 03 01	Suffolk	84197.11
19 12 12	Suffolk	19982.20
20 03 07	Norfolk	15457.24
19 12 10	Essex	393.30
20 03 01	Essex	30809.32
19 12 10	Suffolk	1129.70