Welland Bio Power

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Operator
Capacity	MWe
Feedstock
EPR (Waste Licence)
ROC
CfD
CHP

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2018	54715	0	0	-950	53765
2019	60673	0	0	-773	59900
2020	44379	0	0	-1005	43374
2021	42472	0	0	0	41429
2022	56951	0	0	0	56301

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2018	1783	3.32%	604	1.12%
2019	2319	3.87%	955	1.59%
2020	2245	5.18%	673	1.55%
2021	2013	4.86%	596	1.44%
2022	2090	3.71%	743	1.32%

Welland Bio Power. CoGen, 2018.

Summary

A Biomass EfW facility, Welland Bio Power is based on processing up to 72,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste producing 10.6 MWe gross power to be exported to the national grid after the facility’s own energy requirements are met.

The facility is located near Theddingworth in Northamptonshire. The Wood Waste feedstock is sourced locally through a contract with Welland Waste Management’s adjacent waste timber processing facility.

Welland Bio Power is operated by Nexterra and was developed by CoGen in partnership with Welland Waste Management. CoGen continues to provide management services.

Plant

The facility utilises Nexterra’s fixed-bed updraft gasification system technology, which is an Advanced Conversion Technology. MWH Treatment provided EPC services for the project.

The facility cost £51.6 million to develop and was financed by Balfour Beatty Investments, NOY Nexterra Holdings Limited Partnership (a partnership between NOY Infrastructure Fund and Nexterra) and Equitix MA Infrastructure Fund.

The facility replicates its sister project Birmingham Bio Power.

Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant is reported as Wood Waste in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report for 2018-19. Because the plant is an Advanced Conversion Technology and produces a Syngas the sustainability report talks in terms of the gas input to the energy recovery system, rather than the unprocessed Wood Waste into the plant, which was 305,783,697 cubic meters. The Wood Waste is exclusively supplied by Welland Waste Management which sources much of the Wood Waste from Waste Disposal Authorities. The Wood Waste tonnage received and recorded in the EA statistics for the calendar year (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018) was 9,190 tonnes.