Lincolnshire EFW
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Waste Licence FP3739FS
Operator FCC Environment
Region East Midlands
Operational Capacity 190ktpa
Is site R1? fal
When was R1 Granted? 2017-06-04
What was the R1 value 0.68
Electrical Capacity 13.10MWe
Number of Lines 1
Number of Turbines 1
CHP Yes
Technology Approach EfW
Funding Type PPP

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year HH C&I Clin RDF Total
2016 162025.99 1554.01 0.00 0.00 163580.00
2017 167594.60 1164.44 0.00 0.00 168759.04
2018 168990.40 1910.82 4.50 0.00 170910.22
2019 169181.00 6293.00 0.00 0.00 177546.00
2020 179431.00 5400.00 0.00 0.00 184831.00
2021 165846.00 5027.00 450.00 0.00 171323.00
2022 168835.00 3227.00 0.00 0.00 172062.00
2023 170497.00 6499.00 0.00 0.00 176996.00


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2016 35987.60 22.00% 1635.80 1.00%
2017 35439.40 21.00% 1687.59 1.00%
2018 38281.86 22.40% 4016.18 2.35%
2019 38277.00 21.56% 4064.00 2.29%
2020 39585.00 21.42% 4108.00 2.22%
2021 36531.00 21.32% 3930.00 2.29%
2022 36894.00 21.44% 979.00 0.57%
2023 37176.00 21.00% 4160.00 2.35%

Summary

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. The North Hykenham Energy from Waste facility as its also known has a permitted operational capacity of 190,000 tonnes per annum, and is owned and operated by FCC Environment. The waste arrives on 10 and 25 tonne collection vehicles from the local Lincoln area and five waste transfer stations based in Boston, Gainsborough, Grantham, Louth and Sleaford. [1] The facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste.

The facility is located on a 5 hectare site in Lincolnshire (just outside the village of North Hykenham) about 1.5km Northwest of Lincoln City.[2]

History

The North Hykenham facility was built to primarily service Lincolnshire County Council under a 25 yr contract; with Lincolnshire choosing to use the prudential borrowing mechanism rather than the usual PFI route it had the option to take. Prudential borrowing meant that the £135m costs were funded by a loan from the National Loans Fund linked to HM Treasury.[3]

The plant became fully operational in March 2014 and the development is one of the quickest 'planning to hot commissioning' facilities ever developed in the UK. (Planning permission was granted in Jul 2009 with hot commissioning in August 2013).[3]

The plant takes waste from Lincoln City Council and the greater Lincolnshire area and is almost entirely from municipal sources.[3]

Plant

The facility was delivered through a joint venture between Clugston and technology provider CNIM for FCC Environment under a Design and Build EPC-turnkey contract which was worth in the region of £145m.[4].The plant is capable of producing 11 MW net electricity for export to the grid and includes ancillary infrastructure such as landscaping, administration offices and a visitor centre.[5].

The facility consists of one incinerator line with a total annual capacity of 154,000 tonnes per year (19.24tph) of waste materials with a design average lower calorific value (LCV) of approximately 9.3 MJ/Kg. Moving grate technology is used for burning the waste material. [2]

Local Authority Users

The following data comes from WasteDataFlow for the financial year 2018/19 and represents those local authorities recorded as putting tonnage into the site (either directly or via a transfer station). 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). A 'zero return' below indicates no local authority tonnage was recorded, most likely a result of the plant being recently commissioned and actually having received no tonnage. Equally, lower than expected tonnage maybe a result of either 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.


Authority Tonnage
Lincolnshire County Council 170297.310

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