Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Plant

Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Plant Operational
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Operator	E-On UK Blackburn Meados Ltd
Capacity	30 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)	LP3131TA
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Yes

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2017	202183	0	0	0	202183
2018	214135	0	0	0	214135
2019	200098	0	0	0	200098
2020	149665	0	0	0	149665
2021	207643	0	0	0	207643
2022	199548	0	0	0	199548

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2017	4500	2.23%	5265	2.60%
2018	3636	1.70%	5324	2.49%
2019	4463	2.23%	5116	2.56%
2020	3580	2.39%	3968	2.65%
2021	4084	1.97%	5267	2.54%
2022	4669	2.34%	5207	2.61%

Blackburn Meadows. BDP, 2018.

Summary

A Biomass Waste combined heat and power (CHP) EFW facility utilising a feedstock of Wood Waste to generate 29 MWe and up to 25 MWth. The facility is located on the site of the former Tinsley cooling towers in Sheffield, and the Wood Waste is sourced locally within a 50-mile of the plant. The generated electricity is exported to the national grid and the heat is supplied as hot water to local businesses through a district heating network, including the Sheffield Arena and Forgemaster Steel Works.

The Blackburn Meadows facility is operated by E.ON Energy and became operational in 2015 after beginning construction in 2011.

Plant

The facility had a 10 MW battery installed after it was awarded a contract to support the national grid’s stability requirements, which became operational in 2017.

The unique architectural work was undertaken by BDP, which includes an orange translucent clad boiler house that is internally illuminated.

The facility cost £120 million to develop. It has an Andritz boiler.

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report and for the previous 3 years for 2020/21 was reported by Ofgem as below:

Year	Waste Wood (m3)	Waste Wood (t)	Straw	Miscanthus	Arboricultrual Waste	Sawmill Residue	Foresrty Residue	Round Wood	Short Rotation Coppice	MBM	Other Material
2020/21	0	142827	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	0	203490	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	0	208327	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017/18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit LP3131TA, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2024. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: t.

Where this tonnage exceeds that reported in year of the corresponding annual report, this may be due to the following reasons:

• Tonnage may have been received but not incinerated, i.e. the material is held pending incineration (the operator return to the EA reports as received whereas the annual report focuses on when the waste is incinerated.)
• Material may have been received into the site but treated in some other way than incineration.
• Material may have been received on the but transferred out of site for disposal/treatment at another site rather than incineration on the site.

EWC Code	Origin of Waste	Tonnes In