The UK Biomass Directory 2012

More abouth the directory

The first edition of the UK Biomass directory was produced to great acclaim last year. We have now taken all the feedback and the lessons from our recent Biogas Directory to produce this fully revised, updated and improved second edition of the UK Biomass Directory. With the swith pace of development in the UK biomass sector and a frequently changing economic and political environment, it can be hard to keep track of the progress of biomass power projects in the UK and the potential demand for feedstock, as well as the contribution that biomass, bioliquids and energy-from-waste could make to UK electricity generation in the future.

The UK Biomass Directory 2012 brings together a vast amount of disjointed information in one place.

Extract from the Introduction

... Enagri expects most projects with a rating of 3, and all of those with a 4 rating, to go ahead before 2018. However, the continuing uncertainty over EMR and the political ambitions for biomass power beyond 2020 will make project planning beyond this period difficult in the short term.

This Directory shows that, over the next 9 years the biomass projects included in this survey have the potential to directly create more than 5,500 full time jobs as well as almost as many indirect jobs in servicing, fuel supply and related disciplines. The construction of the plants listed in this Directory will require more than 15,000 skilled construction workers.

According to the publically available data in this report, there are 112 operational, planned or announced facilities designed to produce electricity from solid biomass, 21 plants capable of co-firing biomass and fossil fuel (including at least one using bioliquids for co-firing) and 9 plants using only bioliquid fuels.

Feedstock Demand

This study predicts that, by then end of 2020 the UK will be using more than 50 million tonnes of biomass for power generation each year. Of this the largest proportions are, according to developers' own figures, are 'biomass' (>16.2 MT), 'wood' (>16.1 MT) and 'waste' (>6.6 MT). Compared with the previous report published in the summer of 2010, there are fewer viable projects which have yet to identify suitable types of feedstock.

Agricultural by-products remain a key source of feedstock for the industry, with more than 1.2 MT/year of straw beeing required for both existing and proposed biomass power plants. Schemes using 'Agricultural Waste' and 'Animal Waste Derived Fuel' also have a key role to play.

Vegetable oils and other bioliquids have a relatively small role in the plants covered by this report, partly due to issues of political acceptability and sustainability, but also because this report focuses on larger plants (>2MWe) and, in the UK, many of the biolquid CHP plants being installed have capacities between 100 and 500 kWe.

Format

Market: Biomass Power Generation

Publication Date: November 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Number of Pages: 332

Report Format: PDF

Report Size: 6.50 MB

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