About Us
What we do
Founded in 2005 by James Short and Christian Reeve, BioGen Power is 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) / ERF (Energy Recovery Facility) sector, developing, building and operating high-tech, small-scale, ERF’s across the UK.
Our strategy is twofold and based on both a highly effective ‘merchant’ business format while providing local authority waste disposal solutions where appropriate. 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 Power ERF 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 ERF 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 Power ERF 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 twelve 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.
ERF Project Portfolio
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
On 17th September 2009, BioGen Power were granted planning consent by the Vale of Glamorgan Council to build their 4th Energos Energy Recovery Facility at Barry Dock. The facility will treat 80,000 tonne of non-hazardous household and commercial waste. Exporting some 6MWe of low carbon renewable electricity to some 15,000 local homes, there are also plans to supply steam and renewable electricity to local businesses on and near the dock. The four acre site has been acquired from landlords Associated British Ports and is the second BioGen Power to receive planning consent in South Wales, following success earlier in the year at Newport Dock. The Barry and Newport sites will be developed as sister waste treatment facilities and will boast a combined gasification capacity of just over 200,000 tonnes per year.
Irvine, North Ayrshire
BioGen Power has already 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 early in 2010, 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.
Proposed Illustrations - Irvine Plant
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Sketch Proposed Site Layout and Indicative Floor Plan
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Newport, South Wales
On 1st April 2009, Newport City Council granted BioGen Power permission to build a 120,000 tonne Energos Energy Recovery Facility at Newport Dock, Monmouthshire. It is estimated that the ERF will come on line in mid 2012, providing much needed waste treatment facilities for household and commercial non hazardous wastes arising within the local area. The facility will export some 11MWe of renewable electricity to the local grid system, with negotiations underway to supply heat to nearby industry. While the facility occupies a relatively small footprint (c4 acres) and is located adjacent to an existing landfill site, the capacity of this advanced Energy Recovery Facility is equivalent to 3 million tonnes of waste being sent to landfill, over the estimated 25 year plant life cycle.
Plant Designs
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Doncaster
Following on from the successfully planning application at Newport, on 21st July 2009 Doncaster Metropolitan Council granted BioGen Power planning consent to build a Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Kirk Sandall, Doncaster. The facility will be similar to that planned for Newport, with the ability to treat some 120,000 tonnes of residual waste per year. Build-out will take approximately two years and will create hundreds of construction jobs. Exporting some 9.5 MWe of low carbon electricity into the local grid network, this will be enough power to benefit c20,000 homes. It is also hoped that the facility will provide valuable heat and steam to local industry based in and around the Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate. The consented ERF will place Doncaster at the leading edge of responsible and sustainable waste treatment, providing a long term solution to landfill diversion, recycling and green energy generation. The c5 acre site was once a distribution hub for the adjacent PolyPipe business.
Other Plant Designs
Alternative Plant Designs
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Plant design is flexible and can accommodate existing buildings and specific location requirements
