UPM Shotton Boiler 7

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A Biomass EfW facility, UPM Shotton Boiler 7 is a Combined Heat and Power(CHP) EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 24.8 MWe[1] from a Biomass feedstock of waste paper, fibre, sludge and Wood Waste[2].


UPM Shotton Boiler 7
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Operator UPM-Kymmene Ltd
Capacity 24.8 MWe
Feedstock Waste Wood/Other
EPR (Waste Licence) BT4885IT
ROC Yes
CfD
CHP Yes

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total
2021 0 0 0 271018 271018
2022 0 0 36850 0 258146


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2021 5875 2.17% 28311 10.45%
2022 8303 3.22% 15151 5.87%

UPM Shotton Biomass Facility
UPM Shotton Biomass Facility


Summary

A Biomass EfW facility, UPM Shotton Boiler 7 is a Combined Heat and Power(CHP) EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 24.8 MWe[1] from a Biomass feedstock of waste paper, fibre, sludge and Wood Waste[2]. The plant provides up to 70% of the paper mill's energy production[1]. Most of the energy is consumed in the manufacture of mechanical pulp, pumping and paper drying[3]. In 2016 a second steam turbine was brought on line at the facility which utilises excess steam from the biomass CHP plant[4].

Plant

The technology in use at the plant is a bubbling Fluidised Bed system[2]. The biomass facility cost an estimated £59m[5].

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage[6] received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report and for the previous 3 years for 2018/19 was reported by Ofgem as below[7]:

Year Waste Wood (m3) Waste Wood (t) Straw Miscanthus Arboricultrual Waste Sawmill Residue Foresrty Residue Round Wood Short Rotation Coppice MBM Other Material
2018/19 0 151080 0 0 54355 22532 0 0 0 0 98576

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit BT4885IT, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2023. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 355,911.54t.

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
17 02 01 Hillingdon 3208.46
17 02 01 Telford and Wrekin 1360.22
17 02 01 Newham 440.82
17 02 01 Wigan 405.12
17 02 01 Kirklees 1894.12
17 02 01 Northampton 1071.48
17 02 01 Bradford 3898.43
17 02 01 Salford 13522.84
17 02 01 Redditch 568.64
20 03 01 Doncaster 18238.12
17 02 01 Shropshire 4816.20
03 03 05 Flintshire 11075.16
17 02 01 Cheshire East 185.44
17 02 01 Tameside 576.34
20 03 01 Dorset 27028.96
17 02 01 Manchester 1982.76
17 02 01 Bury 788.60
17 02 01 Mid Sussex 63.88
17 02 01 Solihull 1761.68
17 02 01 Knowsley 5782.48
17 02 01 Powys 870.90
20 03 01 Hambleton 6511.14
17 02 01 Ceredigion 372.54
17 02 01 Conwy 1080.40
17 02 01 Hertsmere 295.96
17 02 01 Cambridgeshire 228.58
17 02 01 Flintshire 1411.98
17 02 01 Hampshire 2037.86
03 03 05 Cheshire East 10589.56
17 02 01 Derby 3130.68
17 02 01 Sefton 505.50
17 02 01 Newcastle-under-Lyme 1125.24
17 02 01 North Lincolnshire 911.98
17 02 01 Stockport 562.42
17 02 01 Wiltshire 301.78
17 02 01 Enfield 3088.00
17 02 01 Wirral 5520.05
17 02 01 Oxfordshire 3769.54
17 02 01 Erewash 343.25
17 02 01 Sheffield 156.20
20 03 01 Hartlepool 483.20
17 02 01 Spelthorne 11.56
17 02 01 Caerphilly 408.94
17 02 01 Bristol, City of 6280.38
17 02 01 Lancashire 3344.90
17 02 01 Trafford 1527.80
20 03 01 Cheshire East 39686.54
20 03 01 Wolverhampton 21128.72
17 02 01 Epsom and Ewell 2702.54
17 02 01 Lincolnshire 95.26
17 02 01 Hinckley and Bosworth 6536.07
17 02 01 Dacorum 3411.80
17 02 01 Gloucester 2370.00
17 02 01 Halton 1525.18
20 03 01 High Peak 8849.54
17 02 01 Gwynedd 6680.11
20 03 01 Gwynedd 2115.48
20 03 01 Warrington 17994.60
17 02 01 Bolton 242.72
17 02 01 Rushcliffe 269.52
17 02 01 Cheshire West and Chester 2602.53
20 03 01 Tyne and Wear 365.22
17 02 01 Doncaster 66.94
17 02 01 Isle of Anglesey 1511.88
17 02 01 Blackburn with Darwen 17.22
17 02 01 Wolverhampton 7308.98
17 02 01 Swansea 62.96
17 02 01 Hackney 15.12
17 02 01 Brent 4929.34
17 02 01 Denbighshire 1271.44
17 02 01 Leeds 6179.95
17 02 01 East Sussex 263.72
20 03 01 Denbighshire 10592.96
17 02 01 Staffordshire 1368.20
17 02 01 East Riding of Yorkshire 251.74
17 02 01 East Staffordshire 502.28
17 02 01 Barking and Dagenham 49.86
20 03 01 Caerphilly 1579.24
17 02 01 Norfolk 1207.12
17 02 01 Dorset 43.04
17 02 01 West Sussex 459.66
17 02 01 Aylesbury Vale 1987.72
17 02 01 Stoke-on-Trent 6680.54
17 02 01 Merton 2825.96
17 02 01 Elmbridge 2475.94
17 02 01 Rugby 53.86
17 02 01 Oldham 1024.36
20 03 01 Stoke-on-Trent 526.75
17 02 01 Hertfordshire 1052.41
17 02 01 Breckland 570.06
17 02 01 Birmingham 315.54
03 03 05 Norfolk 13267.70
17 02 01 Nottinghamshire 352.34
20 03 01 Scarborough 8770.42
17 02 01 Liverpool 18.34
20 03 01 Staffordshire Moorlands 8112.51
17 02 01 Wrexham 79.52


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 UPM
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 /Small & Micro CHP Systems
  3. UPM Annual Report 2016
  4. Two sides
  5. Downtown
  6. In the case of EfW plants with gasification technology the figures are reported in terms of cubic metres of syngas produced rather than tonnes used
  7. Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2020-21