Eye Power Station

A Biomass Waste EFW facility Eye Power Station is focused on processing up to 140,000 tonnes per annum of Poultry Litter but is capable of co-firing other Biomass, including a high proportion of Wood Waste in recent years, to generate up to 17MWe.

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Operator
Capacity	MWe
Feedstock
EPR (Waste Licence)
ROC
CfD
CHP

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2018	53310	67470	0	1862	122642
2019	49580	82443	0	1998	134021
2020	38848	95463	0	1390	135701
2021	50627	78901	0	1301	130829
2022	44478	73441	0	1380	119299

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2018	3243	2.64%	3605	2.94%
2019	3829	2.86%	4380	3.27%
2020	4705	3.47%	6003	4.42%
2021	2824	2.16%	5948	4.55%
2022	3284	2.75%	4714	3.95%

Eye Power Station, picture from annual report, all rights reserved EPR

Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility Eye Power Station is focused on processing up to 140,000 tonnes per annum of Poultry Litter but is capable of co-firing other Biomass, including a high proportion of Wood Waste in recent years, to generate up to 17MWe. The owner, Melton Renewable Energy Ltd claims that this plant is the first Poultry Litter fuelled power station in the world and has been generating power since 1992 i.e. for over 20 years.

Plant

Built and commissioned in 1992, the plant was converted with assistance from K.E.M in 2017 to add fuel flexibility to enable it to receive Wood Waste. The conversion comprised fuel feeding, combustion grate system and slag transport system - the boiler supplies 58tonnes/hour of steam at 66 bar(g) and 450^o to a steam turbine for power production.

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	40896	0	0	345	0	0	0	0	1655	91451
2019/20	0	46932	0	0	881	0	0	0	0	0	89324
2018/19	0	52503	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	75388
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 BP3635LA, 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: 134,353t.

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
02 02 03	Warwick	23.00
19 12 07	Suffolk	47326.00
02 01 07	Suffolk	1246.00
02 01 06	Suffolk	83143.00
20 03 99	Suffolk	1338.00
02 03 99	Suffolk	1173.00
02 01 99	Suffolk	104.00