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==Summary== | ==Summary== | ||
A Biomass Waste EFW facility utilising a feedstock of 120,000 tpa of [[Wood Waste]] to generate 17.5 MWe to be exported to the national grid. The facility is located in the town of Chilton in Durham | A Biomass Waste EFW facility utilising a feedstock of up to 120,000 tpa of [[Wood Waste]] to generate 17.5 MWe to be exported to the national grid. The facility is located in the town of Chilton in Durham. | ||
The facility has been developed, built and continues to be operated by | The facility has been developed, built and continues to be operated by [[Dalkia]], a sister company to [[Veolia Environmental Services]]. Construction started in early 2010 and it became operational in 2011<ref name="ref1 />. | ||
==Plant== | ==Plant== | ||
The facility cost £40 million to develop<ref name="ref1" />. | The facility cost £40 million to develop<ref name="ref1" />. | ||
==Tonnage Input/Fuel== | |||
The tonnage received by the plant in the most recent [[Annual Sustainability Report]] for 2018-19<ref>[https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/biomass-sustainability-dataset-2018-19 Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2018-19]</ref> was reported by [[Ofgem]] as follows: | |||
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! Biomass !! Tonnage (2018-19) | |||
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| [[Wood Waste]] || '''115,099''' | |||
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| Other || 0 | |||
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| Total||115,099 | |||
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The [[Wood Waste]] is received from a variety of sources including old pallets, manufacturing off-cuts, wood from the construction and demolition industry and material from [[Waste Disposal Authority]]'s civic amenity sites<ref name="ref1" >Lets Recycle, 2011. [https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/dalkias-40m-biomass-plant-nears-completion/ Dalkias 40M Biomass Plant Nears Completion - Letsrecycle.Com. Online. letsrecycle.com.[Accessed 6 April 2020].]</ref>. 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 '''117,162''' tonnes. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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