Earls Gate Energy Centre

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An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology, located at Earls Gate Park, Grangemouth in Scotland. The facility is forecast to have a maximum capacity of 215,000 tonnes per annum, and will be a Combined Heat and Power facility, exporting 21.5 MW electricity and heat to the nearby chemical company CalaChem and to other adjacent industrial plants, with any excess power fed into the national grid.

Earls Gate Energy Centre
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Waste Licence PPC/A/1157446
Operator Encyclis
Region Scotland
Operational Capacity 274ktpa
Is site R1? fal
When was R1 Granted?
What was the R1 value 0.00
Electrical Capacity 21.60MWe
Number of Lines 0
Number of Turbines 0
CHP Yes
Technology Approach EfW
Funding Type Merchant

Operators Annual Report


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Earls Gate Energy Centre. Biothek Ecologic Fuel, 2018.
Earls Gate Energy Centre. Biothek Ecologic Fuel, 2018.

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Summary

An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology, located at Earls Gate Park, Grangemouth in Scotland. The facility is forecast to have a maximum capacity of 215,000 tonnes per annum, and will be a Combined Heat and Power facility, exporting 21.5 MW electricity and heat to the nearby chemical company CalaChem and to other adjacent industrial plants, with any excess power fed into the national grid. The cost of the project is circa £200m, which was provided by the investors Brockwell Energy, the Green Investment Group and Covanta.

In March 2022 EQT, the owner of Covanta, bought the interests of the Green Investment Group in this and three other projects (Rookery Pit Energy Recovery Facility (Rookery South), Protos EFW, and Newhurst EFW) to leave Green Investment Group with no further interest in the projects[2].

The facility has been developed by Brockwell Energy, and will be operated by MES Environmental for a contract duration of 25 years. MES Environmental is now a subsidiary of Paprec, having agreed to buy out CNIM in March 2021[3].

The EfW will replace an existing gas-fired energy plant on the site.

The facility was expected to become operational by the end of 2021[4] but has run into delays through the construction subsidiary of CNIM responsible for delivery of EfW projects running into financial difficulties in January 2022. This is also impacting a second plant under construction at Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant[5].

Technology

The moving-grate combustion technology will be provided by CNIM[6].

Construction

CNIM is the EPC contractor for this facility, with Clugston in charge of the civil engineering. Construction commenced in January 2019 and is scheduled to take 3 years, with commissioning ending and operations beginning in 2021[4].

Waste Input

The facility will accept residual waste as feedstock.

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