Boston Energy Production Facility

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Also known as Biomass UK No 3, Boston Energy Production Facility is a Biomass EfW facility based on Wood Waste or RDF designed to export 11.7MWe of power[1].


Boston Energy Production Facility
Under Construction
Site Location
Site Location

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Operator Biomass UK No3
Capacity 11.7 MWe
Feedstock Waste Wood/RDF
EPR (Waste Licence) UP3131DF
ROC
CfD
CHP Unkwn

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year Wood Litter RDF Other Total
2019 8772 0 0 0 8772
2020 6897 0 1147 0 8044
2021 60 0 0 0 60
2022 10145 0 11814 0 21959


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2019 66 0.75% 149 1.70%
2020 483 6.00% 224 2.78%
2022 1189 5.41% 1077 4.90%


Summary

Also known as Biomass UK No 3, Boston Energy Production Facility is a Biomass EfW facility based on Wood Waste or RDF designed to export 11.7MWe of power[2]. The plant was developed by Aviva Investors[3].

Plant

The plant is based on a gasification technology via a Fluidised Bed with power generation via a steam boiler and turbine designed to process up to 86,400 tonnes per annum ata nominal capacity of 10.8 tonnes per hour[4]. The plant remainder closed much of 2021 to allow for an upgrade programme and did not generate any power in the year[5].

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage[6] 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[7]:

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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2019/20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018/19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit UP3131DF, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2023. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 22,278.48t. 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
19 12 12 Derbyshire 471.26
19 12 12 North Yorkshire 104.70
19 12 07 Coventry 6655.62
19 12 07 Birmingham 417.20
19 12 12 Cumbria 106.50
19 12 07 Kingston upon Hull 3072.18
19 12 10 Lincolnshire 2168.38
19 12 12 Hartlepool 2137.62
19 12 12 Carlisle 197.24
19 12 10 Nottingham 1084.90
19 12 12 Lancashire 3334.64
19 12 12 Leeds 391.98
19 12 12 Rugby 54.18
19 12 12 Lincolnshire 2082.08


References

  1. Annual Report 2021
  2. Annual Report 2021
  3. https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/boston-biomass-approved-nrw-consults-barry/
  4. Permit Decision Document
  5. Annual Report
  6. In the case of EfW plants with gasification technology the figures are reported in terms of cubic metres of syngas produced rather than tonnes used
  7. Biomass Sustainability Dataset 2020-21