Notice

RM18 7NU, Thameside Energy Recovery Facility Limited: environmental permit application re-advertisement – EPR/WP3007LM/V002

Published 30 October 2023

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Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received a revision to capacity for an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Thameside Energy Recovery Facility Limited.

Application number

EPR/WP3007LM/V002

Regulated facility type

The facility is an installation permitted under Section 5.1 A(1)(b) activity ‘the Incineration of non-hazardous waste in a waste co-incineration plant with a capacity exceeding 3 tonnes per hour’ under the Environmental Permitting Regulations. This application is to vary the permit as follows:

  • Change the incineration technology from a moving grate with spreader stoker system to an inclined moving grate with ram feeder

  • Increase the annual capacity of the installation from 170,000 tonnes per annum to 379,658 tonnes per annum

  • Change the firing diagram to

  • increase the thermal capacity from 57 MWth to 126.4 MWth and

  • increase the throughput from 14.9 t/h to 43.3 t/h

  • Update the site layout

  • Remove the SRF preparation facility and associated infrastructure

  • Change the SNCR reagent from urea to ammonia solution

  • Add non-hazardous wastes to the permitted waste types

Regulated facility address

Thameside Energy Recovery Facility
Former Cargill Sweeteners Facility
Tilbury Dock
Essex
RM18 7NU

The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:

  • the installation
  • the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
  • the conditions of its site
  • the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
  • the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
  • and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered

How to view and comment on the application

If you have any comments on the application send these by 27 November 2023.

You can comment:

Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk

For advice about how to make a representation or if you are unable to make a representation via e-mail, please call 03708 506 506.

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