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Biomass power in Great Britain

Biomass spans everything burning biological fuel - the giant converted units at Drax, energy-from-waste plants, landfill gas engines and farm digesters.

National data has tracked biomass separately since November 2017; earlier years show 'not tracked', never a fabricated zero.

Stations
587
Capacity
7.7 GW
Live feeds
2
transmission-metered

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Largest biomass power stations

Full ranking
#StationCapacity (MW)TechnologyOperatorRegion
12,580BioenergyPart of Drax GroupYorkshire
2420BioenergyEPUKiNorth East England
3420Biomass (dedicated)Lynemouth PowerNorth East England
483BioenergyViridor Waste ManagementNorth Wales & Merseyside
580.5BioenergyCory Environmental Holdings LimitedLondon
679BioenergyCo-owned by SSE Group and Wheelabrator Technologies IncYorkshire
779BioenergyCo-owned by SSE Group and Wheelabrator Technologies IncYorkshire
872EfW IncinerationCory EnvironmentalLondon
965EfW IncinerationVeolia/CovantaEast England
1061BioenergyRWE NpowerSouth Scotland
1155EfW IncinerationLondonwasteEast England
1255BioenergyLondonEnergyEast England
1355BioenergySSE Group and Copenhagen Infrastructure PartnersSouth England
1455BioenergySembcorp UtilitiesNorth East England
1555EfW IncinerationGent Fairhead Environmental ServicesEast England
1651EfW IncinerationKent Enviropower (FCC Environment)South East England
1749.9EfW IncinerationE.ON / Wheelabrator TechnologiesSouth East England
1849Biomass (dedicated)Iggesund Paperboard (Workington)North West England
1949EfW IncinerationSUEZ / Sembcorp UKNorth East England
2046BioenergyE.ONSouth Scotland

By country

Share of generation by year

  1. 2009not tracked
  2. 2010not tracked
  3. 2011not tracked
  4. 2012not tracked
  5. 2013not tracked
  6. 2014not tracked
  7. 2015not tracked
  8. 2016not tracked
  9. 20174.0%
  10. 20185.4%
  11. 20195.9%
  12. 20206.5%
  13. 20216.7%
  14. 20225.2%
  15. 20234.9%
  16. 20246.7%
  17. 20256.9%
  18. 20266.5% ytd

Yearly average share of GB generation, from NESO's historic half-hourly data. Explore any year in the history explorer.