Great Blakenham EfW

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Suez Great Blakenham
Suez Great Blakenham


Great Blakenham EfW
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Waste Licence WP3438HZ
Operator SUEZ
Region Eastern
Operational Capacity 295ktpa
Is site R1? fal
When was R1 Granted? 2014-05-06
What was the R1 value 0.83
Electrical Capacity 26.00MWe
Number of Lines 2
Number of Turbines 1
CHP No
Technology Approach EfW
Funding Type PFI

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year HH C&I Clin RDF Total
2016 234974.92 822.58 1876.12 28865.74 266539.36
2017 244731.60 864.54 2253.38 19345.18 267194.70
2018 231780.00 1285.00 2345.00 30757.00 266167.00
2019 240953.00 25836.00 3983.00 0.00 270776.00
2020 249840.00 38469.00 3077.00 0.00 291389.00
2021 233448.00 54170.00 3991.00 0.00 291609.00
2022 219661.00 58568.00 4808.00 0.00 283037.00
2023 253294.00 33625.00 7689.00 0.00 294608.00


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2016 49830.48 18.70% 6250.64 2.35%
2017 49033.62 18.35% 6264.84 2.34%
2018 62881.86 23.62% 6508.28 2.45%
2019 47389.00 17.50% 5754.00 2.13%
2020 58294.00 20.01% 6300.00 2.16%
2021 53574.00 18.37% 7150.00 2.45%
2022 48055.00 16.98% 7046.00 2.49%
2023 52061.00 17.67% 7386.00 2.51%

Summary

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Great Blakenham has permitted operational capacity of 269,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Suez it was part refinanced by Suffolk County Council in late 2018 for 22.6% of the value of the plant. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste[1]

History

The Great Blakenham facility was built primarily to service a 25 year PFI contract signed in October 2010 with Suffolk County Council for 170,000 tonnes per annum with later short term capacity offered to Norfolk County Council for 40,000 tonnes per annum to 2021, and then at a reduced rate to 2027[2]. It is located on the outskirts of Ipswich and has been operational since 2014.

Plant

Built by CNIM which started in 2012 and was delivered in June 2014 at a reported £167m capital cost based on the refinancing value. The plant comprises 2 lines via standard combustion technology Martin Reverse Acting Grate, generating super-heated steam, and is configured to run on primarily residual Household Waste and similar residual Commercial Waste.

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
Braintree District Council 1059.870
Castle Point Borough Council 792.532
East Suffolk Council 4120.620
Essex County Council 6494.713
Greenwich LB 609.600
Ipswich Borough Council 1599.150
Lewes District Council 14.420
Mid Suffolk District Council 2538.050
Norfolk County Council 26383.510
Suffolk County Council 203571.684
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council 29.510
West Suffolk Council 2593.950

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