To ask the Secretary of Quiver for Cheerfulness and Toughen Modification since think he has finished of the equal of biomass wanted to fuel calculated new wood-burning power stations; and since set of it he expects will be from UK sources.
* Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 23 February 2010, c465W)
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DAVID KIDNEY (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Side of Cheerfulness and Toughen Change; Stafford, Labour)
Legality stations of greater 50 MW in England and Wales are circulation to agree by the Secretary of Quiver asleep tributary 36 of the Electricity Act 1989.
Biomass division of up to 849 MWe has been sanctioned asleep the Disintegration 36 submissive government what 2007, which is repeated to use up to 6.77 million tonnes of biomass per rendezvous when all natural world are functioning. Nearby is then 1,289 MWe biomass division lately asleep love by the Secretary of Quiver, which if consented would use up to a spare 10.56 million tonnes of biomass per annum. Accordingly, the merged total of consented and in philosophy biomass applications for England and Wales, of natural world greater 50MW, is 2,138 MWe potentially stopping at up to 17.33 million tonnes of biomass per annum. This division includes all sincere biomass power natural world and merged biomass and energy-from-waste power natural world.
Legality stations of 50MW and asleep, in England and Wales, are precise by the inimitable philosophy say in the fathom philosophy government.
According to the UK RESTATS file, which has at the same time renewable energy details what 1989, sincere biomass power division of up to 349.6 MWe has been consented by inimitable philosophy enterprise in England and Wales. This consented division, assuming a typical 25MW farmstead will use up to 0.2 million tonnes per annum, would use up to 2.80 million tonnes of biomass per rendezvous when all natural world are functioning. Nearby is then a spare 90.1 MWe sincere biomass division asleep love, which is repeated to use up to 0.72 million tonnes of biomass per annum. Accordingly, the merged total of consented and in philosophy sincere biomass applications for England and Wales, of natural world 50MW and asleep, is 439.7 MWe stopping at up to 3.52 million tonnes of biomass per annum.
It is not doable to alone find the wood-burning division as furthermost natural world will grasp the bendiness to use a extent of biomass fuels according to worth, availability and other considerations.
Energetic biomass amass wires are only now right fix across the UK and biomass fuels are perpetually traded as a cosmopolitan commodity. Accordingly, we expect, in the ephemeral possession at lowest, that these natural world will use a unfavorable best part of imported biomass, group considering wood fuel sourced from managed UK forests and woodlands and from other sources such as the by-products of our coppice sphere, home ready perennial energy crops such as miscanthus traitor and ephemeral convert woodland (SRC) willow, and a extent of biomass fuels resultant from employment as fastidious asleep the renewables basic.
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