Waste wood co-incineration plants environmental permit variation advertisement
Published 28 June 2023
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Details of the application
The Environment Agency is aware that hazardous waste wood from demolition activities and other sources is routinely chipped and blended with non-hazardous waste wood, and the resulting mixture sent to Chapter-IV compliant co-incinerators.
Although this mixed waste stream is pre-mixed hazardous, RPS 250 currently means it can be moved as non-hazardous under a waste transfer note, and so co-incinerators have not been required to have hazardous waste codes in their permits.
RPS 250 will expire in September 2023. As we are currently reviewing permits for Chapter IV co-incinerators in response to the Waste Incineration BAT Conclusions, we are planning to include hazardous waste codes and other relevant conditions as part of the review process for the following plants:
Operator
EPR Eye Limited
Application number
EPR/BP3635LA/V007
Regulated facility address
Eye Power Station
Oaksmere Business Park
Eye
Suffolk
IP23 7DH
Operator
Welland Operations Limited
Application number
EPR/FP3701LZ/V002
Regulated facility address
Welland Bio Power
Pebble Hall Farm
Theddingworth
Northamptonshire
LE17 6NJ
Operator
Slough Heat and Power Limited
Application number
EPR/CP3031SX/V008
Regulated facility address
Slough Heat and Power Station
342 Edinburgh Avenue
Slough Trading Estate
Berkshire
SL1 4TU
Operator
ENGIE FM Limited
Application number
EPR/GP3509PX/V002
Regulated facility address
Birmingham Bio Power
Fordrough
Yardley
Birmingham
B25 8DW
Operator
Tilbury Green Power Limited
Application number
EPR/KP3936ZB/V005
Regulated facility address
Tilbury Green Power
Former Cargill Sweeteners Facility
Tilbury Dock
Essex
RM18 7NU
Operator
BWSC Generation Services UK Limited
Application number
EPR/NP3805BY/V003
Regulated facility address
Templeborough Biomass Power Plant
River View
Sheffield Road
Rotherham
S60 1FA
Operator
Equitix ESI CHP (Nottingham) Limited
Application number
EPR/QP3936AX/V003
Regulated facility address
Widmerpool Biomass Power Plant
Fosse Way
Widmerpool
Nottingham
NG12 5P
Operator
Equitix ESI CHP (SHEFF) Limited
Application number
EPR/VP3737RS/V005
Regulated facility address
Holbrook Community Renewable Energy Centre
Rother Valley Way
Holbrook
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S20 3RW
Operator
Enviropower Limited
Application number
EPR/XP3030XX/V008
Regulated facility address
Lancing Combustion Plant
Units 1-2
37 Chartwell Road
Lancing Business Park
Lancing
West Sussex
BN15 8TU
Operator
Veolia BioPower One UK Limited
Application number
EPR/LP3206SS/V003
Regulated facility address
Chilton Biomass Plant
Chilton Way
Chilton Industrial Estate
Chilton
County Durham
DL17 0SD
Operator
Mersey Bioenergy Limited
Application number
EPR/JP3132RV/V005
Regulated facility address
Widnes Biomass Facility
Mathieson Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0PE
Operator
Bioenergy Infrastructure Services Limited
Application number
EPR/NP3101SV/V003
Regulated facility address
Ince Bio Power
Plot 9
Protos
Ince
Cheshire
CH2 4LB
Operator
GB Bio Limited
Application number
EPR/WP3738DE/V003
Regulated facility address
Tansterne Biomass Power Plant
Hull Road
Aldbrough
East Yorkshire
HU11 4RE
We are planning to make the following changes to the permits for these plants:
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Add to the Activity Table a 5.1 (a) hazardous waste co-incineration activity and other relevant conditions for hazardous waste co-incinerators.
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Insert waste code 19 02 04* (premixed wastes composed of at least one hazardous waste) into the table of permitted waste types to reflect the mixture of hazardous and non-hazardous waste which is already being received by the plant.
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Include a limit on the proportion of hazardous waste wood within the 19 02 04* waste stream of 10% to prevent the plants from taking a higher proportion of hazardous waste than they are likely taking now.
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Specifically exclude waste wood types from specialist demolition activities (i.e. railway sleepers, telegraph poles etc – see RPS 250 for a full list) from the 19 02 04* mixture.
These changes will not have any impact on the operation of or emissions from the plants as they will simply formalise what they are already doing under RPS 250, and there will be no actual changes to the types of waste types received by the plant.
Regulated facility type
Waste wood co-incineration plants. Section 5.1 Part A(1)
How to view and comment on the application
If you have any comments on the proposed changes send these by 26 July 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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