Teeside EfW - lines 1-5 (Teeside & NEERC), Billingham. line 3
A site with two adjacent EfW facilities based upon it, with 5 process lines (lines 1,2 and 3 often known as Suez Tees Valley and lines 4 and 5 often known as The North East Energy Recovery Centre or NEERC). Based on conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on multiple R1 status/classifications for the lines. The combined permitted operational capacity is around 642,000 tonnes per annum, and is operated and owned by Suez. Delivery of waste is by rail and road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and Commercial Waste.
| Teeside EfW - lines 1-5 (Teeside & NEERC), Billingham. line 3 Operational | |
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| Waste Licence | VP3034SG |
| Operator | SUEZ |
| Region | North East |
| Operational Capacity | 756ktpa |
| Is site R1? | Yes |
| When was R1 Granted? | 2015-06-24 |
| What was the R1 value | 0.68 |
| Electrical Capacity | 55.00MWe |
| Number of Lines | 5 |
| Number of Turbines | 3 |
| CHP | Yes |
| Technology Approach | EfW Incineration |
| Funding Type | PPP |
Operators Annual Report
Input Data
| Year | HH | C&I | Clin | RDF | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 614288.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 614288.00 |
| 2017 | 563349.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 563349.00 |
| 2018 | 613206.00 | 19372.00 | 4692.00 | 0.00 | 637270.00 |
| 2019 | 639251.00 | 11856.00 | 2896.00 | 0.00 | 654003.00 |
| 2020 | 666034.00 | 12409.00 | 3109.00 | 0.00 | 681552.00 |
| 2021 | 659794.00 | 12834.00 | 3787.00 | 0.00 | 676415.00 |
| 2022 | 662061.00 | 13281.00 | 4072.00 | 0.00 | 679414.00 |
Output Data
| Year | IBA | IBA %ge of Tot IN | APC | APC %ge of Tot IN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 144127.00 | 23.46% | 23848.72 | 3.88% |
| 2017 | 137380.00 | 24.39% | 28120.87 | 4.99% |
| 2018 | 157612.40 | 24.73% | 23790.78 | 3.73% |
| 2019 | 151991.00 | 23.24% | 24364.00 | 3.73% |
| 2020 | 168729.00 | 24.76% | 24047.00 | 3.53% |
| 2021 | 168199.00 | 24.87% | 22143.00 | 3.27% |
| 2022 | 165364.00 | 24.34% | 22501.00 | 3.31% |
Summary
A site with two adjacent EfW facilities based upon it, with 5 process lines (lines 1,2 and 3 often known as Suez Tees Valley and lines 4 and 5 often known as The North East Energy Recovery Centre or NEERC). Based on conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on multiple R1 status/classifications for the lines. The combined permitted operational capacity is stated as 756,000 tonnes per annum in the site's annual return, and is operated and owned by Suez. Delivery of waste is by rail and road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and Commercial Waste.
History
The facilities were built at Teeside (often also known as Billingham and/or Haverton Hill) in 3 phases. Lines 1, 2 were opened in May 1998 as a collaboration between Suez and Stockton, Middlesbrough, and Redcar & Cleveland with a capacity of around 250,000 tonnes per annum. Line 3 was built and opened in May 2009 (operational 2008) as an extension to the first two lines, and as part of a PPP with Northumberland signed in 2006 for 28 years with a capacity of 136,000 tonnes per annum. Lines 4 and 5 link to a PFI serving the South Tyne & Wear Partnership in a separate building with a capacity of 256,000 tonnes per annum, giving a total capacity for the site of 642,000 tonnes per annum. A further plant secured planning in 2014 on the same site in Haverton Hill, and is the process of being developed to deliver a further 200,000 tonnes per annum of capacity in 2022 [1]. This site and the planned site are discrete from the operational plant at Wilton.
Plant
The original plant and first two lines were built by Babcock & Wilcox Volund with the third line built by AE&E Inova AG which is now Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (part of the Hitachi Zosen Corporation)[2]. Line 3 was a turnkey line processing 19 tonnes/hour and generating 26 MWe from a conventional combustion technology, a Hitachi Zosen Inova Grate R-100060 air cooled grate based on a CV of between 7.6 and 12.5MJ/kg and is called Cleveland in the company literature[3]. Lines 4 and 5 were of similar capacity and specification for each line as per the third line installed (i.e. 26 MWe per line or 52 MWe in total) processing 256,000 tonnes per annum on the basis of the same CV and at a capital cost of GBP £150m and is called Cleveland 4+5 in the company literature [4].
Local Authority Data
The table below lists those local authorities who have recorded their tonnage on WasteDataFlow as sending their Waste to this site (either directly or via a transfer station) for the most recent financial year, data was updated on 2023-04-26. 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). The total Local Authority waste received by the plant in the period was: 374,974.86t
A 'zero return' or a below expected return, when compared to the EA Data below indicates that either:
- no local authority tonnage was recorded/no tonnage was sent to the site in the period (but has been listed as it may have previously received tonnage from a local authority) or
- a result of the plant being recently commissioned and actually having received no tonnage or
- a lower than expected tonnage maybe a result of a local authority splitting their tonnage over multiple sites, having less tonnage to send than might be anticipated or
- it may be 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 or
- the local authority may not have correctly entered the site's details on WasteDataFlow
| Authority | Tonnage |
|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | 1.360 |
| County Durham | 70873.220 |
| Craven District Council | 16.810 |
| Gateshead MBC | 31925.390 |
| Hartlepool Borough Council | 8046.800 |
| Kirklees MBC | 334.969 |
| Middlesbrough Borough Council | 30430.125 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council MBC | 2652.030 |
| North Tyneside Council | 28993.190 |
| Northumberland | 46278.800 |
| Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | 30479.860 |
| South Tyneside MBC | 25497.900 |
| Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council | 54472.330 |
| Sunderland City Council | 44972.080 |
Waste Tonnage, By Origin
The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit VP3034SG, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data used is from the most recent returns. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: Expression error: Unexpected < operator.t. 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 |
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