Work to start on BDP's £120 million biomass plant
BDP, biomass energy plant for Eon, Sheffield
Construction to begin on orange-coloured energy facility
Work is set to start on BDP’s £120 million biomass energy plant at Blackburn Meadows near Sheffield.
The project for energy company Eon includes landscaping and will also feature a visitor’s centre for schools and other interested groups.
Stephen Marshall, project director at BDP, said: “At 40m-high the design responds to the form and appearance of the black clad steel mills which can still be found in the industrial landscape of the Lower Don Valley.
“Translucent, orange coloured cladding around the central boiler island will visually represent the intense heat at the heart of the process.”
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I wonder how many thousands of acres of cultivation are required to support this plant?
It is always good to try express a bio-mass plant as a steelworks. A bit like the Terries attempt at making a Waitrose look like a classical ruin.
David,
(Some one please correct any errors)
So at 30MWe (e.on website) it will take about in about
30MWe ~= 750,857MWh/yr (30x365daysx24hrs / 0.35 eff.
2kWh/m2.yr for trees sustainable managed (from somewhere in my past)
= 37,542 ha
Whole of Peak District (near Sheffield) 144,000 ha (Wikipedia)
So about 26% of the peak district. Or 104% of the area of Sheffield.
Electricity to serve 40,000 homes (eon website - not sure my input calculation matches this very well, it's too high) 221,478 homes (Sheffield CC Housing assessment 2007) , so they hope to serve 18% of homes with electricity from just over a quarter of the peak district. What about businesses and transport then, the rest of the peak district could be one big forest?
Actually eon say it's all coming from waste wood, so its all okay. Perhaps expect a few strange emissions to help reduce the population ! and for how long will be just burn our valuable resources...
We need to reduce electricity consumption in homes and businesses, it's the only sensible answer.