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A Biomass Waste EFW facility located in Tansterne near Hull which is based on c.150,000 tonnes per annum of waste wood generating 22MW of electricity to the grid<ref name="Tan">[https://solar21.ie/projects/biomass-21/ Solar 21 Biomass]</ref>. | A Biomass Waste EFW facility located in Tansterne near Hull which is based on c.150,000 tonnes per annum of waste wood generating 22MW of electricity to the grid<ref name="Tan">[https://solar21.ie/projects/biomass-21/ Solar 21 Biomass]</ref>. | ||
Revision as of 13:34, 8 April 2020
Summary
A Biomass Waste EFW facility located in Tansterne near Hull which is based on c.150,000 tonnes per annum of waste wood generating 22MW of electricity to the grid[1].
It was funded and developed by Irish renerwable energy company Solar 21 in partnership with Heat Recovery Solutions (HRS) Ltd[2]. The plant became fully operational in February 2018.
In 2016 Probio Energy International won the contract to be sole supplier of the waste wood to the facility[3].
Plant
The biomass power plant utilises a fluidised bed combustion, heat recovery and power module technology developed by HRS a subsidiary HRS Energy Ltd which was manufactured in Hull by project partner CF Struthers, the sister company to HRS Energy[4].
In September 2019 the O&M contractor HRS Energy Tansterne Ltd (HRSET) went into administration. HRSET had originally held the O&M contract until it expired on 01/09/73. The plant is now owner-operated by GIB-Bio Ltd which is a subsidiary of Solar 21, the owners of the facility[1].