The plant has cost around £126 million (€140 million) to build, and has been developed with the capacity to process 170,000 tonnes-per-year of category B and C waste wood. Material to feed the plant will largely be sourced from the Greater London region, the company says.
According to MVV the facility has the capacity to produce up to 23 megawatts of power and will generate close to 200 million kilowatts of electricity to the national grid. The plant is also equipped for heat extraction. Around 30 full time jobs have been created through the development.
‘Sustainability’
Commenting on the plant’s opening, Dr Joachim Manns, managing director of MVV Umwelt – MVV’s global arm – said: “This way, we are underlining our commitment to renewable energies and efficiency as key pillars of sustainable, environmentally-friendly energy generation.”
MVV has also this year opened a 245,000 tonnes-per-year capacity energy from waste plant in Plymouth, built as part of a 25-year contract to handle waste on behalf of Torbay, Plymouth and Devon councils (see letsrecycle.com story).
Investment in UK-waste wood biomass plants has been significant in recent years, with a number of major projects reaching advanced stages of development. This includes BWSC and Stobart’s 147,000 tonnes per year capacity waste wood plant at Widnes, which is expected to be commercially operational by April 2017 (see letsrecycle.com story) and the 325,000 tonnes per year Port Clarence Renewable Energy Plant which is under construction and expected to begin operations in 2018 (see letsrecycle.com story).
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