Tansterne
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Operator Solar 21
Capacity 22 MWe
Feedstock Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence) WP3738DE
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

Tansterne
Tansterne


Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility located in Tansterne, near Hull, which is based processing up to 150,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 22MW of electricity to the grid[1].

It was funded and developed by Solar 21 in partnership with Heat Recovery Solutions (HRS) Ltd[2]. The plant became fully operational in February 2018. The cost of the project was an estimated £35m[3].

In 2016 Probio Energy International won the contract to be sole supplier of the Wood Waste to the facility[4].

Plant

The biomass power plant utilises a twin line fluidised bed gasification combustion system, heat recovery and power module technology developed by HRS, a subsidiary HRS Energy Ltd which was manufactured in Hull by project partner CF Struthers, the sister company to HRS Energy[5]. Each line has a maximum throughput in the order of 16 tonnes per hour[6].

In September 2019 the O&M contractor HRS Energy Tansterne Ltd (HRSET) went into administration. HRSET had originally held the long term O&M contract. The plant is now owner-operated by GIB-Bio Ltd which is a subsidiary of Solar 21, the owners of the facility[1].

The plant has been built to be 'CHP ready' so that when a district heating market becomes available, the provision of heat to supply a local network will be achievable without any modification to the installed system[7].

Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant primarily Wood Waste but there is no tonnage reported in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report for 2018-19[8] by Ofgem. The Wood Waste tonnage received and recorded in the EA statistics for the calendar year (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018) was 142,057 tonnes.

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