Widermerpool Biomass Power Plant

A Biomass EfW facility Widermerpool Biomass Power Plant (also known as Sherwood Biomass Facility) is designed to operate primarily on Wood Waste generating 6.7MWe (5.7MWe to the grid) and 4.5 MWth heat for the adjacent sawmill operation.

Widermerpool Biomass Power Plant Operational
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Operator	Equitix ESI CHP (Nottingham) Ltd
Capacity	6.7 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)	QP3936AX
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Yes

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2018	25107	0	0	0	25107
2019	48730	0	0	0	48730
2020	53373	0	0	0	53373
2021	49199	0	0	0	49199
2022	49135	0	0	0	49135

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2018	855	3.41%	269	1.07%
2019	1497	3.07%	468	0.96%
2020	2131	3.99%	617	1.16%
2021	1774	3.60%	662	1.34%
2022	2146	4.37%	600	1.22%

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Summary

A Biomass EfW facility Widermerpool Biomass Power Plant is designed to operate primarily on Wood Waste generating 6.7MWe and heat for the adjacent sawmill operation (John Brook Sawmill, Waring Waste). Owned by Equitix it is operated under a 20 year contract for them by Veolia which commenced in 2015.

Plant

Developed by Pinnacle Power and Mycock Associates the plant was built by STC Power for Equitix and is operated by Veolia. Alpha Construction Ltd acted in the role of Principle Contractor for STC Power under CDM, with delivery of the concrete foundation/pit strucutre, foundations, floors etc the total plant is reported to have cost £30m and is based on mving [[grate technology.

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	40207	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	0	45708	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	0	29017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017/18	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 QP3936AX, 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: 49,134.64t. 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 07	Nottinghamshire	44410.72
19 12 07	Rotherham	877.22
19 12 07	Sheffield	2817.06
19 12 07	Manchester	690.56
19 12 07	East Riding of Yorkshire	339.08