Billingham Biomass Power Station

Billingham Biomass Power Station
Location of Billingham Biomass Power Station in County Durham
Country	England
Location	Billingham
Coordinates	54°35′13″N 1°15′40″W / 54.587°N 1.261°W / 54.587; -1.261Coordinates: 54°35′13″N 1°15′40″W / 54.587°N 1.261°W / 54.587; -1.261
Status	Planned
Owner(s)	Gaia Power
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Biomass
Power generation
Nameplate capacity	45 MW

Billingham Biomass Power Station is a planned biomass power station, that is to be built on the River Tees at Billingham. It is to be built on the site of the former coal-fired North Tees Power Station.^[1] The station will have a generating capacity of 45 megawatts (MW).^[2]

The station was granted planning permission in October 2009.^[2] The construction of the power station will cost £200 million, and is expected to be completed by 2012. The project was initiated by Gaia Power, who chose Aker Solutions to develop the project.^[3]

References

↑ "£200 million biomass plant wins planning approval". New Energy Focus. 16 October 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
1 2 Blackburn, Mike (16 October 2009). "Billingham biomass power station to go ahead". nebusiness.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
↑ "Latest News" (PHP). Gaia Power. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Electricity generation in North East England

Generating
sites

Biomass

Active	Biomass Energy Centre Lynemouth (co-fires) Wilton 10

Proposed	BEI-Teesside Billingham North Blyth Teesport Tyne REP

Coal

Active	Lynemouth

Closed	Berwick upon Tweed Blyth Carville Chopwell Colliery Close Consett Darlington Derwenthaugh Coke Works Dunston Forth Banks Hebburn Horden Colliery Lemington Mainsforth Colliery Manors Morrison Busty Colliery Neptune Bank Newburn Steelworks North Tees Ouston Colliery Pandon Dene Philadelphia South Shore Road South Shields Stella Sunderland Vane Tempest Colliery Whinfield

Proposed	Eston Grange (Gasification)

Cancelled	Blyth Clean Coal Kepier

Gas

Active	Seal Sands Teesside Wilton

Proposed	ConocoPhillips Teesside Thor Cogeneration

Cancelled	Newburn

Hydro

Active	Derwent Kielder

Closed	Cragside

Nuclear

Active	Hartlepool

Cancelled	Druridge Bay

Oil

Active	Wilton

Waste

Active	Teesside Path Head landfill

Closed	Blaydon Burn Derwenthaugh Coke Works Newburn Steelworks Portrack Whinfield

Proposed	North Eastern Energy Recovery Centre Wilton 11

Cancelled	Blyth

Wind

Active	Blyth Harbour Blyth Offshore Broom Hill Great Eppleton Hare Hill High Sharpley High Volts Holmside Hall Kirkheaton Langley Park Teesside Tow Law Trimdon Grange Walkway West Durham

Proposed	Butterwick Moor Haswell Moor Kiln Pit Hill Lynemouth Royal Oak Barmoor South Green Rigg Kielder Moorsyde Ray Hill South Sharpley Steadings Teeswind North The Isles Todd Hill West Ancroft Wingates

Organisations
and personnel

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