Western Wood Energy Plant


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Site Location
Site Location

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Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN

Western Wood Energy Plant - Source Chris Andrews
Western Wood Energy Plant - Source Chris Andrews


Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility based upon the co-firing of virgin wood and forestry processing rejects, with only small amounts of clean Wood Waste to generate 14MWe[1]. The Forestry Commission is the largest fuel supplier to the plant.

The Western Wood facility is owned by Western Bioenergy Ltd and Good Energies(UK) LLP is the principle shareholder (with a minority interest by Western Log Group who originally developed the project). ECO2 joined the project between 2004 and 2014 for fuel logistics and administration - the plant is now owned and operated by Greensphere Capital LLP.

Plant

The plant commenced construction in October 2006 and was fully operational in November 2008. The plant cost £33m to construct via an EPC consortium contract between Aalborg Energie Technik (AET) and Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC). It is based on coventional combustion via an advanced grate that processes 20 tonnes per hour of wood chips, with a steam turbine from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding[2].

Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant is a mixture of Biomass and in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report for 2018-19[3] Ofgem reported the following fuel received (Wood Waste representing 7% of input):

Biomass Tonnage (2018-19)
Wood Waste 9,744
Virgin Wood 104,038
Virgin Wood Chips 17,971
Brash 4,216
Total 135,969

The Wood Waste tonnage received cannot be directly compared with the stated historical tonnage received and recorded in the NRW statistics as these are recorded on a calendar year basis (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018) and were not available for the period.

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