Markinch Biomass CHP Plant

Markinch Biomass CHP Plant Operational
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Operator	RWE
Capacity	61.6 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood/Virgin
EPR (Waste Licence)	PPC/A/1096556
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Unkwn

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

RWE's Markinch Biomass CHP: source papnews.com

Summary

A Biomass Cogeneration Combined Heat and Power (CHP) EFW facility based on up to 450,000 tonnes per annum of Biomass fuel of which approximately 90% is recovered waste wood and the remainder virgin wood sourced from sustainably manged forests.

The facility is located in the small town of Markinch in Fife, Scotland and has an installed capacity of 55 MW. The plant had been generating power to Tullis Russell Papermakers and the local network since February 2014 however, following the paper plants closure the facility has since only been operating in 'power only mode'.

The Markinch plant forms part of the Glenrothes Energy Network project and is working in partnership with Fife Council to install heat to a district heating network for Glenrothes through a newly constructed Energy Centre .

The owner and operator of the facility is RWE npower renewable, a susbsidiary of RWE Innogy's UK. The plant became operational at the end of 2012. The plant replaces the existing coal-fired plant at the paper mill site and required an investment of approximately £200m. RWE, the owner and operator officially took over the site in November 2010.

The project was partially financed by £8.1m of support from the Scottish Government's Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) grant which encourages investment and provides financial support to new and existing businesses that can create or safeguard jobs in designated areas of Scotland.

Plant

Markinch Biomass Power Plant uses CHP technology which generates both electricity and heat simultaneously and in doing so generates up to 20% in energy savings. The technology uses a fluidised bed boiler and flue gas systems.

Metso power was awarded a contract worth £75m for the delivery of a 155MWth circulating fluidised bed boiler and flue gas treatment plant. Aker Solutions were awarded a £115m contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and project management. It was also responsible for the design, supply, construction, installation and commissioning of the plant.

Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant is a mixture of Biomass and whilst no report is available for the most 2018-19 return, the Annual Sustainability Report for 2017-18 Ofgem reported the following fuel received (Wood Waste representing 84% of input):

Biomass	Tonnage (2017-18)
Wood Waste	263,388
Virgin Wood (chip)	51,591
Other	297
Total	315,276

The plant has arranged Wood Waste (including chipboard and MDF) supply agreements with Fife Council, DJ Laing, Stobart Biomass and Suez who are the biggest single supplier, providing 200,000 tonnes of waste wood to the plant every year. Suez has three wood processing facilities for this purpose - Binn Farm in Perthshire, Ellington in Northumberland and Clifton Marshes near Preston. The Wood Waste tonnage received cannot be directly compared with the stated historical tonnage received and recorded in the SEPA statistics as these are recorded on a calendar year basis (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018) and no figures were available for the period.