About Us
What we do
Founded in 2005 by James Short and Christian Reeve, BioGen Power is one of the UK’S fastest growing and most dynamic Renewable Energy companies. With a clear focus and with robust ambitions, BioGen Power aims to be a leader within the ATT (Advanced Thermal Treatment) EfW (Energy from Waste) sector, developing, building and operating high-tech, small-scale, EfW plants across the UK.
Our strategy is unique and based on a highly effective ‘merchant’ business format. BioGen Power builds plants close to where the waste is produced. We are not about building large ‘mass burn’ incinerators that require vast quantities of waste to be transported by road, often at a high cost, both financially and environmentally. Rather, BioGen’s strategy is all about building and operating ‘small-scale’ gasification plants, close to the waste source, allowing each individual area to deal with its own local waste, on its own local doorstep. It's green, it’s clean and it’s fair!
Merchant means we are able to deliver waste disposal solutions at pace. A typical BioGen EfW plant can be designed, built and fully operational well within three years of site identification, and that includes obtaining planning consent. Now if you know anything about EfW and the various technologies available, that’s very quick indeed and is fairly unique in providing urgently needed waste treatment solutions to address the country’s growing waste disposal problems.
While each BioGen EfW plant treats unwanted domestic and commercial industrial wastes, it also produces substantial quantities of ‘renewable energy’, both in terms of electricity and steam. Thousands of local homes and businesses will benefit from BioGen’s green and clean electricity, once a plant is fully operational, while certain selected neighbours may further benefit from heat or hot water, sent directly to their properties. You’re probably asking yourself, so why on earth were we not doing this before? Well frankly, as a nation with low cost landfill and a past abundance of our own fossil fuels, there was little incentive to do anything else other than to bury our waste in the ground and use up our valuable supplies of oil, gas and coal.
Another unique BioGen benefit; we only utilise tried and tested technologies. Our chosen ‘small-scale’ plant technology providers, ENERGOS, boast a ten year track record and posses valuable expertise in terms of delivering engineering and service excellence across Europe. We don’t do prototypes, though we know they are often a less expensive option.
Plant Portfolio
On the 28th August 2007, BioGen Power successfully achieved planning consent to build an 80,000 tonne ENERGOS EfW gasification plant in Irvine, North Ayrshire. This will be the UK's first EfW gasification plant of its type and size and will be built , subject to agreeing contracts, under a JV agreement between ENER-G Holdings plc, the owner of the chosen ENERGOS EfW technology and BioGen Power Limited. Work is expected to commence in the autumn of 2008, with the plant expected to be fully operational by early 2010. BioGen Power plan to build and operate 12 similar plants across the UK by 2013.
A number of additional sites have already been acquired or are in the process of being acquired in Scotland, the North West and North East of England, South Wales, East Anglia, London and Northern Ireland. By 2013, BioGen plans to dispose of over 1.5m tonnes of residual waste per year, producing some 100MWe of renewable electricity and/or c300MWth of heat.
Irvine, North Ayrshire
Proposed Illustrations - Irvine Plant
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Sketch Proposed Site Layout and Indicative Floor Plan
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Other Plant Designs
Alternative Plant Designs
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Plant design is flexible and can accommodate existing buildings and specific location requirements
