Kent Renewable Energy Plant

Kent Renewable Energy Plant Operational
Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC)
Capacity	27 MWe
Feedstock	Virgin/Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)	LP3034RD
ROC	No
CfD
CHP	Yes

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

Kent Renewable Energy Plant. Bioenergy International, 2018

Summary

A Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Biomass EfW facility based on consuming up to 240,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste and other Biomass as a feedstock to produce 27 MW of power. This facility supplies heat (in the form of steam) and electricity to the nearby Discovery Park, one of Europe’s leading Science and Technology parks near Sandwich in Kent. The excess power is exported to the national grid.

The fuel is sourced locally by Euroforest Ltd, a provider of harvesting and marketing services to the UK forestry industry, who supplies low grade wood for the facility from woodland management practices in the south east of the UK.

Kent Renewable Energy Plant became operational in 2018 after beginning a 25 month construction period in the summer of 2016.

Plant

This facility is operated by Burmeister Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC), who also provided turnkey EPC services for the project.

Kent Renewable Energy Plant received an investment of approximately £150m of equity from its majority-owner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) in order to develop the facility.

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 Ofgem reported the following fuel received (Wood Waste representing 13% of input):

Biomass	Tonnage (2018-19)
Wood Waste	22,067
Sawmill Residues	12,998
Virgin Wood (chip)	7,680
Virgin Wood (logs)	124,523
Total	167,268

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 was 15,773 tonnes.