Tyseley ERF

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Located in Birmingham, Tyseley ERF has a permitted operational capacity of 350,000 tonnes per annum, exporting 25 MW to the grid after the plants own power needs are supplied for. The plant is owned and operated by Veolia. The waste feedstock utilised at the plant is primarily Municipal Solid Waste originating from Birmingham.

Tyseley ERF Operational
Site Location See Residual EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Waste Licence	WP3239SJ
Operator	Veolia
Region	West Midlands
Operational Capacity	441ktpa
Is site R1?	fal
When was R1 Granted?	2015-03-06
What was the R1 value	0.62
Electrical Capacity	30.00MWe
Number of Lines	2
Number of Turbines	1
CHP	No
Technology Approach	EfW
Funding Type	PPP

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	HH	C&I	Clin	RDF	Total
2016	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2017	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2018	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2019	336460.00	1122.00	2251.00	0.00	342761.00
2020	351684.00	3547.00	1748.00	0.00	360328.00
2021	371404.00	2146.00	1618.00	0.00	378950.00
2022	357168.00	2565.00	2216.00	0.00	365281.00
2023	351932.00	1233.00	2670.00	0.00	358825.00

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2016	73293.00	0.00%	8231.00	0.00%
2017	68786.00	0.00%	8329.00	0.00%
2018	69805.00	0.00%	8402.00	0.00%
2019	72127.00	21.04%	8374.00	2.44%
2020	75871.00	21.06%	8838.00	2.45%
2021	78027.00	20.59%	8513.00	2.25%
2022	77152.00	21.12%	8709.00	2.38%
2023	72796.00	20.29%	8214.00	2.29%

Tyseley EfW Veolia. Birmingham Live, 2014.

Summary

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Located in Birmingham, Tyseley ERF has a permitted operational capacity of 350,000 tonnes per annum, exporting 25 MW to the grid after the plants own power needs are supplied for. The plant is owned and operated by Veolia. The waste feedstock utilised at the plant is primarily Municipal Solid Waste originating from Birmingham.

In June 2020, Veolia announced plans to alter the Environmental Permit of the site which now allows the plant to accept a maximum of 10,000 tonnes a year of 'orange bagged' healthcare waste.

History

Veolia signed a 25-year contract with Birmingham City Council in 1993 for the delivery of the facility. The facility was built in 1996 by Veolia, just to the east of Birmingham City Centre in order to treat waste that cannot be re-used, recycled or composted. Prior to the Waste Incineration Directive came into force in 2005, Fichtner provided engineering and project management support to Veolia to enable the plant to meet the new standards of the WID.

Plant

Veolia ES Birmingham has a Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) contract under a government scheme to support renewable energy, subsequently a large proportion of this financial benefit passes to the City Council. Tyseley ERF comprises of 2 lines, each able to process 23.5 tonnes of waste per hour, equivalent to 386,000 tonnes per annum, with a turbo-generator exporting 25 MW to the grid.

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: 345,883.86t

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
Birmingham City Council	342359.360
Central Bedfordshire	2879.090
Hertfordshire County Council	27.930
Shropshire	130.820
Solihull MBC	2.640
Telford and Wrekin Council	436.480
West Berkshire District Council	47.540

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit WP3239SJ, 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: 358,818.53t.

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
18 01 08*	West Lothian	6.70
18 01 01	Walsall	0.08
02 01 03	North West	0.02
18 01 04	Coventry	0.36
20 01 99	Telford and Wrekin	1.98
02 02 03	Walsall	0.58
18 01 09	North Hertfordshire	28.73
16 03 05*	Walsall	0.13
15 02 03	North Northamptonshire	571.70
16 02 14	Telford and Wrekin	1.94
15 01 10*	Dumfries and Galloway	7.26
20 03 01	Stoke-on-Trent	3707.16
18 01 03*	Portsmouth	35.64
18 01 01	Horsham	2.42
20 03 01	Ashfield	45.78
20 01 99	Leicester	6.92
20 01 39	Birmingham	0.60
18 01 01	Falkirk	0.07
18 01 08*	Swindon	25.82
15 01 02	Renfrewshire	3.47
18 01 03*	Walsall	44.61
18 01 08*	Sheffield	28.56
18 01 08*	East Staffordshire	0.74
18 01 03*	Stirling	21.96
18 01 09	Stevenage	1.94
20 03 07	Birmingham	2973.37
20 01 01	Milton Keynes	51.42
20 03 01	Wolverhampton	3618.04
20 03 01	Solihull	163.98
18 01 04	Birmingham	337.46
18 01 01	Powys	2.91
18 01 06*	County Durham	63.24
20 01 99	Bedford	0.10
18 01 03*	Staffordshire	2.66
15 02 02*	Rotherham	7.02
20 01 01	Bristol, City of	0.64
20 01 39	Wyre Forest	3.30
18 01 03*	Swindon	0.21
18 01 08*	Northamptonshire	7.18
15 02 02*	Milton Keynes	4.08
18 01 03*	Cambridgeshire	6.52
18 01 09	Doncaster	0.37
18 01 09	Derbyshire	269.72
18 01 08*	Essex	1.00
18 01 03*	Wakefield	443.89
18 01 09	Caerphilly	0.52
18 01 03*	Essex	6.11
20 03 01	Birmingham	335319.44
20 01 01	Derbyshire	2.77
18 01 09	Northamptonshire	1.02
15 02 03	West Berkshire	2.26
20 01 39	Bristol, City of	0.84
20 01 99	Gloucestershire	0.08
18 01 03*	South Ayrshire	6.38
18 01 03*	Sheffield	295.20
18 01 09	Chesterfield	0.44
18 01 03*	Lincolnshire	0.84
20 01 99	Derbyshire	9.02
18 01 09	Swindon	148.56
18 01 09	Oxfordshire	89.44
16 03 06	Coventry	1.87
18 01 03*	Wrexham	0.42
18 01 03*	Northamptonshire	6.60
18 01 04	Redditch	0.35
18 02 01	North Hertfordshire	0.94
18 01 04	Walsall	0.71
20 01 99	East Riding of Yorkshire	0.12
18 01 03*	Warwick	4.46
20 03 01	Peterborough	245.68
15 01 02	Oxfordshire	0.05
18 01 09	Crawley	8.71
18 01 03*	East Riding of Yorkshire	0.02
20 01 39	Telford and Wrekin	1.18
18 01 08*	North Hertfordshire	13.15
20 01 32	Walsall	0.03
18 01 01	Barnsley	0.04
20 01 31*	Birmingham	4.40
18 01 03*	Birmingham	91.85
18 01 03*	Hampshire	21.92
16 03 06	Derbyshire	30.74
18 01 09	Barnsley	0.09
03 01 05	Warwick	0.56
15 02 03	Renfrewshire	6.86
18 01 09	Powys	9.58
15 01 01	Bridgend	0.08
15 01 02	Shropshire	17.16
15 02 03	Nottinghamshire	196.46
02 03 04	Somerset	1.36
02 01 03	Leicester	2.14
18 01 08*	Crawley	26.27
18 02 08	North Hertfordshire	171.81
18 01 09	Lincolnshire	4.50
18 01 08*	Wakefield	44.89
15 02 03	Leicestershire	195.22
16 03 04	Derbyshire	0.68
20 01 39	Derbyshire	3.20
02 02 02	Walsall	0.02
07 05 14	Kingston upon Hull, City of	8.90
18 01 09	Walsall	0.79
20 01 01	Gloucester	34.78
02 01 06	Walsall	0.04
18 01 03*	Chesterfield	17.82
20 03 01	Walsall	0.20
18 01 08*	Walsall	15.36
20 03 01	Reading	48.04
18 01 08*	Halton	0.03
15 01 02	Horsham	13.32
18 01 02	Walsall	0.02
15 02 02*	Wolverhampton	8.20
18 01 09	Horsham	24.65
18 01 04	Nottinghamshire	6.97
18 02 05*	Derbyshire	1.83
18 01 09	Hounslow	16.20
18 01 09	Staffordshire	0.59
20 01 99	Warwick	5.46
18 01 03*	Redditch	25.08
18 01 08*	Oxfordshire	4.57
15 02 02*	Redditch	0.36
18 01 03*	Bedford	0.92
16 03 06	Crawley	7.00
18 01 08*	Hertfordshire	34.22
18 01 03*	Glasgow City	93.10
15 01 02	Crawley	1.36
02 01 03	Richmond upon Thames	0.02
18 01 03*	Perth and Kinross	11.31
18 02 08	Herefordshire, The County of	1.21
18 01 08*	St Helens	2.44
02 01 06	Coventry	42.64
16 03 04	Shropshire	1.04
16 03 03*	Derbyshire	1.84
15 02 03	Leicester	3.12
15 02 02*	Walsall	7.08
15 02 03	Leeds	27.48
07 05 13*	Walsall	0.35
20 03 02	Birmingham	175.26
18 01 08*	Milton Keynes	7.58
16 03 06	West Sussex	14.90
20 01 99	Birmingham	3.34
20 03 01	Northamptonshire	330.56
20 01 39	Worcester	9.20
18 01 04	Lichfield	18.85
20 01 99	Walsall	2.88
16 02 14	Bristol, City of	0.28
02 01 03	Somerset	0.20
20 01 01	Wolverhampton	0.29
15 01 06	Horsham	30.20
20 03 01	Leicestershire	2217.22
15 02 03	Stratford-on-Avon	3.36
15 02 03	Swansea	10.58
20 01 08	Liverpool	18.46
18 01 08*	Powys	4.43
18 01 01	Bridgend	0.04
18 01 08*	Croydon	0.02
20 01 99	Cheshire West and Chester	0.06
18 01 04	Barnsley	2.81
16 03 05*	Crawley	1.36
18 01 04	Tamworth	6.73
18 01 09	Essex	0.97
18 01 01	North Hertfordshire	0.09
15 02 02*	Falkirk	24.71
15 01 10*	Powys	0.82
20 01 99	Worcestershire	0.02
18 01 04	East Hertfordshire	4.37
20 03 01	Staffordshire	212.38
18 02 08	Denbighshire	1.86
15 02 02*	East Sussex	12.82
18 01 04	Worcestershire	16.38
15 01 10*	City of Edinburgh	14.56
18 01 04	Nottingham	3.68
20 03 07	Shropshire	71.92
18 01 09	County Durham	7.56
18 01 03*	Telford and Wrekin	65.24
18 01 08*	Nottingham	8.53
18 01 04	Chesterfield	0.77
16 03 04	East Staffordshire	0.64
20 03 01	Derby	1236.94
20 03 01	Hertfordshire	92.98
18 01 09	Redditch	1.20
18 01 06*	South Ayrshire	25.80
18 01 09	Leicestershire	26.71
15 02 03	Walsall	0.02
16 03 06	Oxfordshire	0.05
18 01 03*	Milton Keynes	0.46
02 01 03	Sandwell	0.18
20 01 99	Staffordshire	41.92
18 02 03	Yorks & Humber	1.36
18 01 09	Nottingham	55.89
18 01 08*	Leicestershire	14.46
18 01 06*	Derbyshire	1.12
18 02 02*	Herefordshire, The County of	2.20
18 01 03*	Doncaster	31.26
18 02 03	Not Codeable	43.25
18 01 08*	Telford and Wrekin	5.02
18 01 03*	Newcastle upon Tyne	45.84
18 01 08*	Birmingham	11.33
18 01 08*	Bedford	24.48
18 01 03*	North Hertfordshire	65.16
18 01 08*	Falkirk	0.82
20 01 99	Coventry	2.64
18 02 08	Not Codeable	1.56
18 01 08*	Redditch	1.42
18 01 09	Telford and Wrekin	4.47
18 01 08*	Caerphilly	1.59
16 03 06	Walsall	0.20
18 02 08	Powys	0.39
18 01 09	Yorks & Humber	0.00
15 02 03	Crawley	0.70
18 01 04	Staffordshire	281.34
20 03 01	Shropshire	782.20
18 01 09	Warwickshire	0.28
15 01 06	Crawley	17.25
18 01 03*	Barnsley	0.30
15 01 01	Crawley	8.32
18 01 09	Birmingham	0.75
18 01 03*	Falkirk	0.66
18 01 04	Wakefield	1.48
18 01 04	Stoke-on-Trent	581.02
16 03 06	Warwickshire	0.13
18 01 01	Sheffield	12.66
18 01 03*	Liverpool	42.06
16 03 05*	Derbyshire	0.67
20 01 01	Birmingham	32.24
18 01 04	Doncaster	30.54
20 01 99	Lincoln	3.96
18 01 08*	Cherwell	5.83
18 01 08*	Hounslow	3.26
15 01 06	Derbyshire	0.90
18 01 03*	Nottingham	427.44
18 01 09	Wakefield	0.67
18 01 08*	Derbyshire	202.01
20 01 01	West Berkshire	15.74
16 03 06	Horsham	0.88
18 02 07*	Derbyshire	1.63
20 01 39	Nottingham	0.40
02 01 06	East Riding of Yorkshire	0.02
15 02 03	Wiltshire	0.62
20 03 01	Telford and Wrekin	435.68
16 03 05*	Powys	0.38
18 01 01	St Helens	7.44
18 01 04	Falkirk	0.04
20 01 01	Walsall	0.78
18 02 03	Herefordshire, The County of	19.65
18 02 03	Walsall	0.02
18 02 08	Derbyshire	15.53
16 03 06	Bridgend	0.22
18 01 03*	Renfrewshire	8.02
15 02 03	Powys	3.22
18 01 08*	North West	193.78
18 01 08*	Chesterfield	79.76
18 01 09	Bridgend	16.56
18 01 04	Telford and Wrekin	0.33
18 01 04	Northamptonshire	12.15
20 01 99	Norwich	0.48
18 01 09	Portsmouth	0.02
18 01 04	Sheffield	24.75
18 01 04	Perth and Kinross	277.34
18 01 04	Derby	24.83
18 01 03*	East Hertfordshire	2.00
18 01 09	Halton	8.15
18 01 08*	Doncaster	0.09
18 01 08*	Barnsley	0.23
18 01 08*	Horsham	19.21
18 01 09	Sheffield	4.42
18 01 08*	Exeter	8.70
18 01 01	Crawley	7.15
16 03 06	Birmingham	0.36
02 01 03	Renfrewshire	1.16
18 01 01	Derbyshire	8.58
18 01 08*	Sandwell	5.56
16 03 06	Powys	0.19
15 02 02*	Portsmouth	1.06
16 03 05*	Warwickshire	0.42
18 01 09	East Hertfordshire	0.34
18 01 08*	Bridgend	8.23
18 02 02*	Not Codeable	4.31
18 01 03*	Nottinghamshire	147.12