Transcript SSE - The Arboricultural Association

Energy Managing Trees for Energy
Made Andrew Clark (Fuel Quality &
Better Compliance Manager)
Overview of SSE
+ SSE owns 11.4GW of Electricity Generating Capacity in the UK
and Ireland
+ SSE is the Largest Renewable Energy Generator in the UK
+ SSE’s Total Capacity (Including Joint Ventures and Associates)
Comprises:
 4.6GW of gas- and oil-fired capacity.
 4,4GW of coal-fired capacity (with biomass co-firing capability).
 2,4GW of renewable (hydro, wind, EfW and dedicated biomass)
capacity
+ SSE is Investing Around £4 Billion in New Capacity Between
2008-13
Slough Heat & Power
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Established 1920s
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A Subsidiary of SEGRO (Slough Estates plc) Until 2007
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Acquired by SSE 2008
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Electricity, Steam & Hot Water Networks
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Renewable Combined Heat & Power
Renewable Fuels, Saving Carbon
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Overall Generating Capacity of 100MWe
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35MWe Capacity on Wood Fuel Chips
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12MWe Capacity on Waste
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Renewable Heat
Two Types of Wood Fuel
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Recycled: Clean, Untreated Wood from Pallets, Packaging, Demolition
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Biomass: Clean, Virgin Wood from Tree Surgeons, Woodland Harvesting,
Sawmills
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3,500 Tonnes Each Fuel per Week
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300,000 Tonnes of Wood Fuel per Annum
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24 / 7 Delivery
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Quality is key
Slough Heat and Power – Energy and CHP Facility
Diagram key
1. Coal fired plant converted to wood fuel
2. CHP energy recovery plant and fibre fuel
3. Slough Trading Estate secure network
4. Sawmill producing woodchips
5. Wood recycling facility
6. Tree surgery/woodland management
7. Energy crops
Conversion to Wood Fuel
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Coal in-feed could not deal with nature or quantity of wood
Converted to wood fuel from 2001
New in-feed system installed 2003
Push floor
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Belts with a screen & magnets
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Screw dischargers in bunkers
Biomass Portfolio
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Over 1,400 tree surgeons
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Sawmills
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Willow coppice grown by farmers
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Local: large proportion within 50 miles
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£m revenue for rural workers, hauliers
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Helps support woodland management
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Wildlife benefits
Local Biomass Strategy
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Off Site Storage
Offers Buffer and Fall Back Options
50,000te pa Offsite Small Roundwood Chipping Facility
Standing and Road Side Timber Purchases
National Biomass Strategy
+ Purchase of Forests
+ Whole Tree and Small Roundwood Chipping Operations
Extracting Value from Trees
+ Brash Bale trials
+ Stump trials
SSE's future development plans
Uskmouth (South Wales) Conversion
+ 321MW (3 Units)
+ April 2012 - No More Coal Burning
+ 1 Unit to be Modified (Virgin Wood Pellets)
+ 500,000 Tonnes per Annum
+ Pellets to be Pulverised
Forth Energy
+ Forth Energy is a Strategic Venture Company Formed by SSE
and Forth Ports Limited.
+ 4 Biomass Plants (Dundee, Grangemouth, Rosyth and Leith)
+ £1.7bn Investment
+ Total 500MW
+ 5,000,000 Te pa Wood Fuels
Any Questions?