Holbrook Community REC

A Biomass EfW facility Holbrook Community REC is based on up to 55,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste producing 6.5 MWe gross power to be exported to the national grid. This facility is a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, enough heat is produced and harnessed to supply approximately 6,700 local homes and commercial properties.

Holbrook Community REC Operational
Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	Equitex ESI CHP (Sheff.) Ltd
Capacity	6.3 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)	VP3737RS
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Yes

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2018	20530	0	0	0	20530
2019	31798	0	0	0	31798
2020	31202	0	0	0	31202
2021	48716	0	0	0	48716
2022	29820	0	0	0	29820

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2018	356	1.73%	312	1.52%
2019	826	2.60%	538	1.69%
2020	911	2.92%	287	0.92%
2021	1153	2.37%	910	1.87%
2022	647	2.17%	616	2.06%

Holbrook Community Renewable Energy Centre

Summary

A Biomass EfW facility Holbrook Community REC is based on up to 55,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste producing 6.5 MWe gross power to be exported to the national grid. This facility is a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, enough heat is produced and harnessed to supply approximately 6,700 local homes and commercial properties. Holbrook Community Renewable Energy Centre is located in Sheffield.

The Wood Waste feedstock is locally supplied by Mid UK Recycling. The operator of this facility is Veolia Energy Services Ltd.

Plant

The Design and Build EPC contractor for this development was Kandor Energy Ltd.

The facility cost £30m to develop and became operational in 2017

The technology utilised in this facility is two water-cooled moving grate furnaces that are supplied by Turboden Srl (part of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group). Turboden Srl also supplied the ‘organic rankin cycle’ (ORC) turbogenerators with air condensers for the facility which uses ‘organic fluid’ vapour as the driving force for the turbine within a closed loop heating circuit.

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage 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:

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	0	32414	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	0	35579	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	0	21188	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 VP3737RS, 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: 29,896.18t. 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	Rotherham	8243.32
19 12 07	North Yorkshire	5404.48
19 12 07	Yorks & Humber	3358.74
19 12 07	Manchester	12889.64