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116 Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Wastes and Energy AEA/ED45551/Issue 1 Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme The Bioenergy Capital Grants Scheme (BEGS) was launched in 2002. Four funding rounds have been held over the past five years to support various aspects of the Bioenergy sector. DTI and the Lottery funded the first two rounds and Defra the third and fourth. The fifth round funded by DECC was launched in Dec 2008 and the successful applicants have just been announced. The objectives are focused on building the basis of an industry, and providing a learning experience. This has directed the scheme towards a broad portfolio of projects that captures a wide range of technologies and companies. The scheme has produced the following highlights: • Two major power plant projects in operation at Lockerbie and Middlesbrough see Box 4. • Several electricity/CHP installations in operation located in South Wales, Northern Ireland, and Staffordshire including anaerobic digestion. • 1 x 5.4 MWe industrial CHP at a brewery. Replications are already being planned across the sector. • 1 x 1.4 MWe gasification CHP to supply a University Campus. • A core industry of suppliers installing biomass boilers with over 400 installations so far. • Parallel generation of local wood fuel suppliers extracting local woodlands and resources. Each region now has several suppliers. • Nine projects with local authorities that demonstrate public sector leadership in developing carbon abatement strategies. For example, Nottingham is converting all their schools to wood heating. • Started UK pellet fuel industry by supporting the Balcas sawmill CHP plant in Northern Ireland, producing 40k tonnes pellets per annum. Balcas are now replicating this, at double the size, in Scotland based on the experience. • Initiated a new industry in recovered wood fuel in the North East and North West by providing a market for over 200k tonnes per annum. E.ON and others are now planning further installations to use this resource. • Average cost of carbon abatement: £132 of Government funding per annual tonne abated in later rounds.
Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Wastes and Energy AEA/ED45551/Issue 1 Box 4: New UK Projects burning graded waste wood supported by the Bioenergy Capital Grants Scheme Wilton 10: Wood Burning Power Station Wilton 10 at Teeside, Middlesborough, was the UK’s first large scale biomass power station, built at a cost of £60m, and commencing operation in 2007. It is owned and run by SembCorp Utilities, using 300,000 tonnes of wood as the fuel source and sourcing this material from a mixture of waste wood from civic amenity sites, C&D sites and waste firms (40%), primary processing products (20%), arboricultural arisings sourced from the north east region’s forestry commission and dedicated coppice grown as an energy crop. All material is stored and chipped on a neighbouring site to the power station. The power station uses a bubbling fluidised bed boiler, capable of handling the high moisture fuel and the ash produced from the wood. The Siemens steam turbine is used to generate 33MW of electricity, which is sold directly to the grid. In addition 10MWth of steam is available and this is used by the sites district heating steam circuit, largely as process heat. Steven’s Croft: Wood Burning Power Station Steven's Croft, in Lockerbie, Scotland, is currently the UK’s largest biomass power station. It is owned and run by E.ON, who opened it in 2008. The cost of building was £90m including £18m from the Big Lottery Grant. It utilises 480,000 tonnes of wood each year of which is sourced principally from forestry coproducts from within a 60 mile radius, up to 20% recycled wood from wood product manufacture, and some short rotation coppice willow. It is intended that by 2012 90,000 tonnes of wood will be sourced from locally grown willow. The output is 44MW of electricity to the national grid. There are a considerable number of facilities that use forestry residues and sawmill co-products internationally. The table below signposts to sources of information regarding the most important markets internationally. Table 58 Forestry waste to energy facilities Country Feedstock Comments Finland 210 Forestry residues and saw mill coproducts Finland has several power plants that utilise the widely available resource of wood, with much of the resource coming from forestry residues and saw-mill co-products. Many of these are CHP systems. In addition Finland has two plants that are fuelled by the waste from paper processing plants – called Black Liquor, the lignin and hemicellulose fragments of wood. The generation capacity of these plants ranges from 17-240MW. The CHP plant of Pietarsaari (Alholmens Kraft Power) is the world’s largest biofuel CHP plant with an output of 240 MW of electricity, 100 MW process steam and 60 MW of district heat. It began operating in 2001 and processes 150,000 - 200,000m 3 of logging residues (as well as peat and black liquors from the paper mill). 211 210 The World’s largest biofuel CHP plant, http://www.itebe.org/telechargement/revue/Revue5/Revue5-UK/RevueBE5-UK-p42.pdf 211 Alholmens Kraft, http://www.metso.com/corporation/home_eng.nsf/FR?ReadForm&ATL=/corporation/about_eng.nsf/ WebWID/WTB- 071102-2256F-C513C 117
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