Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant

The Birmingham Energy Recovery facility

Tyseley Energy Recovery Facility is a waste incineration plant in Birmingham, UK. It is run by Veolia.

It was built in 1996 by Veolia to a design by Faulks Perry Culley & Rech.^[1] The plant has become a notable building in Birmingham with a lighting scheme that illuminates the plant during the hours of darkness. It was built to comply with the European emissions standards that came into force in 1996. Veolia benefits from Levy Exemption Certificates for the element of energy which is produced from renewable sources. This provides income to the City Council. The plant was opposed by Birmingham Friends of the Earth for contributing to climate change, causing air pollution and reducing recycling rates in the city.^[2]

The ERF operates 24 hours a day for 365 days a year (except for planned shutdowns for maintenance). It takes around 350,000 tonnes of waste produced by the city annually and burns it along with natural gas to produce electricity, of which 25MW is fed into the National Grid.^[3] It is a two-stream plant with each boiler designed to process 23.5 tonnes of rubbish per hour. It has a turbo-generator which exports 25MW to the National Grid, after providing for on-site needs. The ERF also recovers several thousand tonnes a year of ferrous metals for recycling from the process.

References

↑ Phillips, Derek (2000). Lighting Modern Buildings. Architectural Press. pp. 136–7. ISBN 0-7506-4082-0.
↑ Birmingham’s Big Burner, Birmingham Friends of the Earth
↑ Plant details

External links

Veolia: Energy recovery

Coordinates: 52°27′35″N 1°50′38″W / 52.4598°N 1.8439°W / 52.4598; -1.8439

Incineration in the United Kingdom

Operational	Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility Ardley Incinerator Baldovie Incinerator Bellozanne Incinerator Belvedere Incinerator Bolton Incinerator Chineham Incinerator Colnbrook Incinerator Coventry Incinerator Crossness Incinerator Dudley Incinerator Edmonton Incinerator Glanford Power Station Isle of Man Incinerator Isle of Wight gasification facility Kirklees Incinerator La Collette Incinerator Lerwick Incinerator Marchwood Incinerator Newhaven Incinerator Newlincs EfW facility North Hykeham Incinerator North East Energy Recovery Centre Nottingham Incinerator Portsmouth Incinerator Red Moss Landfill SELCHP Sheffield Incinerator Stoke Incinerator Swansea Incinerator Teesside EfW plant Thetford Incinerator Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant Westfield Incinerator Wolverhampton Incinerator

Under construction	Calvert Incinerator Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre Plymouth Leeds Milton Keynes Peterborough Shrewsbury

Decommissioned	Byker Incinerator Gateshead Incinerator Polmadie Incinerator Portrack Incinerator South Shields Incinerator Sunderland Incinerator Tynemouth Incinerator Weston Point Power Station

Electricity generation in the West Midlands

Companies

Current	E.ON UK

Former	Midlands Electricity Pre-nationalisation electric power companies

Power stations

Biomass

Active	Ironbridge B

Proposed	Baxterley

Coal

Closed	Avon Birchills Commercial Road Coventry Hams Hall Ironbridge A Meaford Nechells Ocker Hill Rugeley A Rugeley B South Staffordshire Tramways Stourport Wolverhampton Worcester

Gas

Active	Fort Dunlop

Incinerators/Waste

Active	Coventry Dudley Stoke Tyseley Wolverhampton

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