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{{BiomassPlant|NAME=Shotton|id=69}}
{{BiomassPlant|NAME=Shotton|id=69}}
==Summary==
==Summary==
A Biomass Waste CHP EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 4.8 MWe<ref name="UPM">[https://www.upm.com/news-and-stories/articles/2016/02/increasing-renewable-energy-production-at-shotton/ UPM]</ref>. The plant provides up to 70% of the paper mill's energy production<ref name="UPM" />. Most of the energy is consumed in the manufacture of mechanical pulp, pumping and paper drying<ref>[https://cld.bz/bookdata/helJYL/basic-html/page-66-67.html#/ UPM annual Report 2016]</ref>.
A Biomass Waste CHP EFW based at the UPM Shotton newsprint mill in Flintshire, north Wales generating 24.8 MWe<ref name="UPM">[https://www.upm.com/news-and-stories/articles/2016/02/increasing-renewable-energy-production-at-shotton/ UPM]</ref>. The plant provides up to 70% of the paper mill's energy production<ref name="UPM" />. Most of the energy is consumed in the manufacture of mechanical pulp, pumping and paper drying<ref>[https://cld.bz/bookdata/helJYL/basic-html/page-66-67.html#/ UPM annual Report 2016]</ref>. In 2016 a second steam turbine was brought on line at the facility which utilises excess steam from the biomass CHP plant<ref>[https://www.twosides.info/UK/solar-success-for-upm-shotton/ Two sides]</ref>.


==Plant==
==Plant==