Barry Dock – Biomass No 2
A Biomass Waste EFW facility Barry Dock – Biomass No 2 is based processing up to 86,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 10MWe to be exported to the local grid. The facility is located off Woodham Road, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
| Barry Dock – Biomass No 2 Operational | |
 See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map. | |
| Operator | Barry Biomass UK No. 2 Ltd |
| Capacity | 10 MWe |
| Feedstock | Waste Wood |
| EPR (Waste Licence) | AB3790ZB |
| ROC | No |
| CfD | |
| CHP | No |
Operators Annual Report
Input Data
| Year | Wood | Litter | RDF | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 828 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 828 |
Output Data
| Year | IBA | IBA %ge of Tot IN | APC | APC %ge of Tot IN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 0.36% | 5 | 0.60% |
Summary
A Biomass Waste EFW facility Barry Dock – Biomass No 2 is based processing up to 86,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 10MWe to be exported to the local grid. The facility is located off Woodham Road, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. The Wood Waste feedstock consumed at this facility comes from a variety of sources including municipal recycling centres and manufacturing companies[2].
Construction of this facility began in 2016 and entered the commissioning stage in 2019[2]. It was reported in August 2021 that commissioning had resumed after pausing in April 2020[3]. This plant and the other two developed by Aviva Investors[4] by were reported in November 2024 as being close to being mothballed [1]
Operations are carried out by Barry Biomass, which is fully monitored by Natural Resources Wales (NRW)[4].
Plant
The facility is owned, managed and financed by Aviva Investors[4]
Gasification technology is implemented to recover energy[4].
Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel
The tonnage[5] received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report and for the previous 3 years for 2020/21 was reported by Ofgem as below[6]:
| Year | Waste Wood (m3) | Waste Wood (t) | Straw | Miscanthus | Arboricultrual Waste | Sawmill Residue | Foresrty Residue | Round Wood | Short Rotation Coppice | MBM | Other Material |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 | 10121248 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Waste Tonnage, By Origin
The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit AB3790ZB, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2023. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 0t.
Where this tonnage exceeds that reported in year of the corresponding annual report, this may be due to the following reasons:
- Tonnage may have been received but not incinerated, i.e. the material is held pending incineration (the operator return to the EA reports as received whereas the annual report focuses on when the waste is incinerated.)
- Material may have been received into the site but treated in some other way than incineration.
- Material may have been received on the but transferred out of site for disposal/treatment at another site rather than incineration on the site.
| EWC Code | Origin of Waste | Tonnes In |
|---|---|---|
| 19 12 07 | Vale of Glamorgan | 0.00 |
References
- ↑ Barry Biomass Site PhotoAll Rights Reserved
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lets Recycle, 2020. Barry Biomass Undergoing Final Tests - Letsrecycle.com. Online. [Accessed 3 April 2020.]
- ↑ Letsrecycle Article August 2021
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Barry Biomass, 2020. Welcome To Barry Biomass. Online. Barry Biomass. [Accessed 3 April 2020]
- ↑ In the case of EfW plants with gasification technology the figures are reported in terms of cubic metres of syngas produced rather than tonnes used
- ↑ Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2020-21