Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility

Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility
Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility in March 2006
Official name	Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility
Country	England
Location	Aylesford Kent
Coordinates	51°17′34″N 0°29′28″E / 51.2928°N 0.4912°E / 51.2928; 0.4912Coordinates: 51°17′34″N 0°29′28″E / 51.2928°N 0.4912°E / 51.2928; 0.4912
Commission date	2007
Operator(s)	Kent Enviropower
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Waste
grid reference TQ738578

The Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility is an integrated waste management centre in Allington, Kent. It is the site of the Allington Energy from Waste (EfW) Incinerator. The incinerator is owned by FCC Environment as Kent Enviropower. The facility, which has involved an investment of over £150 Million, is able to process 500,000 tonnes per annum of waste and has the ability to produce 40MW of power. The facility takes non-hazardous waste from households and businesses in Kent and the surrounding area for recycling and energy recovery. Materials separated by householders are sorted and sent for recycling, with the remainder being used to generate electricity to power the facility and for the local supply network.

Built in a former ragstone quarry, the site includes one 80 metres (260 ft) high chimney, and covers an area of 84 acres (34 ha), of which 67 acres (27 ha) will eventually become parkland, and permanently employs around 100 people.^[1]

Under a 25-year contract with Kent County Council, Over 325,000 tonnes of municipal waste, from Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Malling, Dartford, Gravesham and Swale councils will be processed each year.^[1] The centre is a major waste facility and will contribute to Kent meeting its LATS obligations for the diversion of waste from landfill. The incinerator employs fluidized bed incineration technology and has been in commercial operation since December 2008.

References

1 2 Kent Enviropower Key Facts and Figures, www.wrg.co.uk, Accessed 23.11.06

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Electricity generation in South East England

Power stations

Biomass

Active	Slough

Closed	Didcot A (co-fired) Kingsnorth (co-fired)

Coal

Closed	Brighton A + B Cowes Didcot A (co-fired) Earley Eastbourne Broomgrove Kingsnorth (co-fired) Littlebrook A, B + C Northfleet Osney Richborough Slough

Gas

Active	Cowes Damhead Creek Didcot B Grain Humbly Grove Hythe Marchwood Medway Sevington Shoreham Storrington

Closed	Hastings Slough

Incinerators/Waste

Active	Allington Quarry Chineham Isle of Wight Marchwood Newhaven Portsmouth Slough

Nuclear

Active	Dungeness B

Closed	Dungeness A

Refused/Cancelled	Dungeness C

Oil

Closed	Kingsnorth (co-fired) Fawley Grain Littlebrook A, B + C, D Marchwood Northfleet Richborough

Solar

Active	Brighton Energy Co-operative Westmill Solar Co-operative

Wind

Active	Green Park Gunfleet Sands Kentish Flats London Array Romney Marsh Thanet Westmill Wind Co-operative

Proposed/Future	Navitus Bay Rampion

Organisations

Brighton Electric Light Company
Centrica
Expro International Group
Hammond Electric Light Company
UK Power Networks
Pre-nationalisation electric power companies
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Southern Electric

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

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Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility

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