A 147,000 tonne per year waste wood biomass facility in Widnes, England is set to begin testing in October 2016, with commercial operations beginning in early 2017. The 20.2MWe plant will be powered by burning grades B and C recovered wood sourced under a 16-year fuel supply contract. Initial testing will use around 500 tonnes of waste wood, with commissioning in December 2016. The plant is expected to provide heat and power to a nearby logistics hub.

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The Widnes biomass facility is expected to be
commercially operational by April 2017
Widnes waste wood biomass plant to begin testing
Testing is to begin on a 147,000 tonnes-per-year capacity waste wood biomass facility in the North West
of England from next month, with the plant due to be operational by April 2017, developers have revealed.
The 20.2MWe and 7.8MWth facility is being developed within the 180-acre Mersey Multimodal Gateway
project – a logistics hub to the west of Liverpool – by Danish 㧉�rm Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian
Contractor (BWSC) and logistics company Stobart Group.
Described as the largest waste wood renewable
energy plant in the region, the plant will be operated
by BWSC under a 20-year operation and
maintenance contract.
The combined heat and power (CHP) facility will be
powered by burning grade B and C recovered wood
sourced by Stobart Biomass Products Ltd under a
16-year fuel supply contract with the UK 㧉�rm.
In an update on the project this month, Stobart
revealed that around 500 tonnes of waste wood is to
be supplied for the initial testing period, which is
slated to begin in mid-October in advance of
commissioning in December 2016. Commercial
operations will then begin at the site in early 2017,
Stobart has also revealed.
Dryer
Latest work on the facility has included the installation of a belt-dryer, which will take the heat from the
biomass plant with a forward temperature of 85°C and a return temperature of 35°C.
Stobart has also begun work on a wood processing facility located at a site nearby, which will process
waste wood for delivery to the boiler.
The processing facility is being built on the former site of a warehouse operated by plastics manufacturer
Rehau. This will be the main site for sorting and chipping waste wood to feed the CHP plant.
BWSC is involved in a number of other UK biomass projects including a 14.3 MW facility in Port Talbot,
which opened in 2008 and is operated by Western Wood. BWSC also operates and maintains the straw-
㧉�red Sleaford Renewable Energy Plant in Lincolnshire as well as backing a major waste wood-㧉�red
biomass plant at Lisahally in Northern Ireland.
GIB
Funding for the facility has come from the Green Investment Bank, as well as investment partners Investec
Bank and Eksport Kredit Fonden (see letsrecycle.com story).
Supplying the Widnes facility will bring Stobart closer to its goal of supplying two million tonnes of
biomass fuel to the market by 2018.
The company has signed a number of supply contracts with biomass plants across the UK – including
Brite Partnership’s 40MW facility in Rotherham, the ECO2 biomass plants in both Margam, South Wales,
and Port Clarence in Teesside.

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