Ince Biomass Power Plant

A Biomass EfW facility, Ince Biomass Power Plant is based on processing up to 157,000 tonnes per annum of waste wood producing 21.5 MW of electricity that is exported to nPower under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement. The facility is located at Protos in Cheshire, and forms part of Peel Environmental’s ‘Protos’ energy hub located near Ellesmere Port.

Ince Biomass Power Plant Operational
Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	Bioenergy Infrastructure Services Ltd
Capacity	22 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)	UP3803PN
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	No

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2019	66166	0	0	0	66166
2020	91750	0	0	0	91750
2021	84254	0	0	0	84254
2022	95007	0	0	0	95007

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2019	1933	2.92%	948	1.43%
2020	1425	1.55%	1055	1.15%
2021	1487	1.76%	1358	1.61%
2022	1269	1.34%	1936	2.04%

Ince Bio Power. CoGen, 2018.

Summary

A Biomass EfW facility, Ince Biomass Power Plant is based on processing up to 157,000 tonnes per annum of waste wood producing 21.5 MW of electricity that is exported to nPower under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement. The facility is located at Protos in Cheshire, and forms part of Peel Environmental’s ‘Protos’ energy hub located near Ellesmere Port. The Wood Waste feedstock is sourced locally through a contract with Ince Park Renewables.

The operations & maintenance for the facility is being carried out by Stantec. Construction commenced in 2015 and Ince Bio Power became fully operational in March 2015.

Plant

The facility utilises Outotec’s fluidised bed advanced Gasification technology, which is an Advanced Conversion Technology. The EPC services for the project were provided by a joint venture between MWH Treatment Limited and Black & Veatch Limited.

The construction and initial operations of the facility were managed by CoGen, and funding was provided by Bioenergy Infrastructure Group.

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	380220289	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	277654817	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	181876041	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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 UP3803PN, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data used is from the most recent returns. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: t.

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