Eye Power Station

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Site Location
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Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total
2018 53310 67470 0 1862 122642
2019 49580 82443 0 1998 134021
2020 38848 95463 0 1390 135701
2021 50627 78901 0 1301 130829
2022 44478 73441 0 1380 119299


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2018 3243 2.64% 3605 2.94%
2019 3829 2.86% 4380 3.27%
2020 4705 3.47% 6003 4.42%
2021 2824 2.16% 5948 4.55%
2022 3284 2.75% 4714 3.95%

Eye Power Station, picture from annual report, all rights reserved EPR
Eye Power Station, picture from annual report, all rights reserved EPR


Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility focused on processing up to 140,000 tonnes per annum of Poultry Litter but is capable of co-firing other Biomass, including a high proportion of Wood Waste in recent years, to generate up to 17MWe. The owner, Melton Renewable Energy Ltd claims that this plant is the first Poultry Litter fuelled power station in the world and has been generating power since 1992 i.e. for over 20 years[1].

Plant

Built and commissioned in 1992, the plant was converted with assistance from K.E.M in 2017 to add fuel flexibility to enable it to receive Wood Waste. The conversion comprised fuel feeding, combustion grate system and slag transport system - the boiler supplies 58tonnes/hour of steam at 66 bar(g) and 450o to a steam turbine for power production[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 41% of input):

Biomass Tonnage (2018-19)
Wood Waste 52,503
Animal Bedding (Poultry Litter) 72,875
Other 2,512
Total 127,890

The Wood Waste is received from a variety of sources. The Wood Waste 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) and were 43,573 tonnes.


References

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  2. KEM Website
  3. Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2018-19