Tilbury Green Power

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Operator
Capacity	MWe
Feedstock
EPR (Waste Licence)
ROC
CfD
CHP

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

Picture from 2019 Annual Report Cover Page

Summary

Tilbury Green Power Limited (TGP) is a renewable power plant fuelled by Wood Waste, located within the Port of Tilbury on the banks of the River Thames. The plant has a capacity of around 40 MWe.

The plant uses up to 270,000 tonnes of Wood Waste per annum which is provided by Stobart Biomass who source the fuel for the plant from the local catchment area, which is then processed at the onsite facility.

The Tilbury Green Power Plant was developed by Tilbury Green Power Limited, the major shareholders at the time being the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) (now called Green Investment Group). Burmeister and Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) and Aalborg Energie Technik (AET) were minor shareholders. GIB and ESB each invested £35m to the project as a combination of equity and shareholder loans, with an additional £2m participation from the technology provider AET. Senior debt funding was provided by the Danish Export Credit Agency (Eksport Kredit Fonden), Investec and Rabobank. The total cost of the project amounted to £190m.

In June 2021 the facility was acquired by two new shareholders - Altri SGPS S.A through its wholly owned subsidiary Greenvolt (51% of the shares) and Equitex (49% of the shares) for a value of £245.5m.

The project is being progressed in two phases with Phase 1 already operational and Phase 2 awaiting construction. The original planning consent for the site permitted the total capacity to be 60MWe with an overall waste processing limit of 650,000 tonnes per year with Solid Recovered Fuel also being permitted up to a total tonnage of 170,000 tonnes. A variation to this planning consent has now been granted, which will allow the site to operate up to 80 MWe and the use of Solid Recovered Fuel up to 350,000 tonnes per annum

Plant

The construction of the plant commenced in August 2015 following completion of site preparation works which began in May 2015. The plant became fully operational in January 2019. BWSC were appointed the EPC contractor and O&M contractor for the project with AET designing, supplying and commissioning the boiler, flue gas and combustion systems, the latter of which is based upon the travelling grate (AET Biograte) system.

Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report for 2018-19 was reported by Ofgem as follows:

Biomass	Tonnage (2018-19)
Wood Waste	171,993
Other	0
Total	171,993

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 172,408 tonnes.