Current AD plant data*

* See our website http://adbiogas.co.uk/members-area/planning-database/ for the limitations and caveats relating to this data

Operational plants broken down by electricity/CHP, heat-only and biomethane

  Number of existing operational plants

Capacity of existing operational plants

Electricity/ CHP plants*  136 144 MWe

Heat-only plants 5 1 MWth

Biomethane plants 4 1500 m3/ hr

Total 145 152 MWe-equivalent

* Excludes electricity/ CHP on biomethane sites

* Including electricity plants supplying biomethane sites

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 110

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Cumulative and annual capacity increase (MW electrical-equivalent)*

Electrical-equivalent capacity increase in year Cumulative electrical-equivalent capacity

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Number and capacity of existing electricity/ CHP plants broken down by capacity range

Number of existing electricity/ CHP plants in different capacity ranges*

Capacity of existing electricity/ CHP plants in different capacity ranges (MWe)

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* Including electricity plants supplying biomethane sites

Agricultural35%

Industrial21%

Municipal/ commercial

waste44%

Percentage capacity of opera-tional electricity/ CHP plants

broken down by sector

Agricul-tural49%

Industrial18%

Munici-pal/

commer-cial waste

33%

Percentage of operational plants by sector

* Note that some plants will count twice due to operating on two different kinds of feedstock

Agricultural Industrial Municipal/ commercial waste0

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Feedstock Current annual feedstock use by sector (Mtpa)**

ASORI survey 2012 (input tonnage grossed to 99 plants, including WRAP estimate of 6 Mtpa of industrial liquid waste)*

ASORI survey 2012 results mulitipled by the current number of operational plants divided by 99 (i.e. to account for the increase in plant numbers since survey)*

Agricultural feedstocks  1.4                                       0.8                                       1.2                                      Industrial feedstocks** 8.0                                       6.3                                       9.2                                      Municipal/ commercial feedstocks *** 2.1                                       0.6                                       0.9                                      Total 11.5                                     7.7                                       11.3                                    

 *** ADBA figures include municipal wastes taken to MBT facilities where those facilities include AD 

Current feedstock use by sector, including comparison with ASORI 2012

 *ASORI estimate does not include residual waste used in MBT plants (which WRAP estimate at 0.76 Mtpa in 2012)  ** The industrial feedstocks figure is particularly high due to the high water content of feedstocks such as liquid effluent