Chilton Power Station

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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
2017	103325	0	0	0	103325
2018	117413	0	0	0	117413
2019	116234	0	0	0	116234
2020	106451	0	0	0	106451
2021	108601	0	0	0	108601
2022	108160	0	0	0	108160

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2017	4644	4.49%	1574	1.52%
2018	6444	5.49%	1476	1.26%
2019	5102	4.39%	1311	1.13%
2020	4064	3.82%	1267	1.19%
2021	4019	3.70%	1351	1.24%
2022	4021	3.72%	1512	1.40%

Chilton Biomass EfW. Geograph, 2011.

Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility utilising a feedstock of up to 120,000 tpa of Wood Waste to generate 17.5 MWe to be exported to the national grid. The facility is located in the town of Chilton in Durham.

The facility has been developed, built and continues to be operated by Dalkia, a sister company to Veolia Environmental Services. Construction started in early 2010 and it became operational in 2011.

Plant

The facility cost £40 million to develop. It has a design capacity of 14 tonnes per hour with a maximum annual consumption of 120,000 tonnes. This is at a continuous rating of 312 tonnes per day based on an average CV of 15 MJ/kg. The anticipated availability of 7,800 to 8,000 hours per annum (89%).

Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report for 2018-19 was reported by Ofgem as follows:

Biomass	Tonnage (2018-19)
Wood Waste	115,099
Other	0
Total	115,099

The Wood Waste is received from a variety of sources including old pallets, manufacturing off-cuts, wood from the construction and demolition industry and material from Waste Disposal Authority's civic amenity sites. The Wood Waste 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) and was 117,162 tonnes.