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Information for Uskmouth Power Station, West Nash Road, Nash, Newport

Status: Prevented
Planning Region: Wales
Planning Sub-Region: South Wales
Operator: SIMEC Atlantis Energy
Capacity: 900,000 (waste derived fuel pellets)
Campaign Group(s): Friends of the Earth Cymru, Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, Biofuelwatch and South Wales Without Incineration Network (SWWIN)
Notes: Conversion of coal-fired power station. Sometimes described as 'biomass', but it was reported in July 2019 that the plant: "will be fuelled with pellets derived from waste. The pellets will contain high levels of plastic waste" [Source]. On the 29th of May 2020 SIMEC announced the commencement of the 28-day Pre-Application Consultation (PAC) for the conversion project which will run throughout June 2020 [Source, Source]. It was reported in February 2021 that the Council could not grant planning permissio nfor the application while the Welsh Government were considering a request that they call-in the application [Source]. A consultation on the variation of the permit ran from 26th March 2020 until 8th May 2020 (PAN-008534). While it is claimed that the change of use from coal to waste-derived pellets does not require planning consent this was questioned by the Welsh Government's Planning Policy Branch, resulting in application application 20/0748 for supporting infrastructure being called-in by Welsh Ministers on the 24th of March 2021 (APP/G6935/V/21/3272494). It was reported in April 2022 that: "Simec terminated the conversion application last month after it was called in by the Welsh government last year, following its decision to implement a moratorium on new EfW projects" [Source, Source]. (Entry updated 2022-06-15)

Entry on WikiWaste:

https://wikiwaste.org.uk/index.php/Uskmouth_Power_Station_(Subcoal)

Permit Variation files:

264-PermitVariation-2016.pdf

Permit Variation Decision files:

264-PermitVariationDecision-2016.pdf

Environment Agency Compliance Assessment Reports

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Standard notice:

UKWIN (and therefore the UKWIN map) focuses on Municipal Waste Incinerators, whereas our colleagues at Biofuelwatch focus on biomass projects. If you are interested in biomass incinerators (including waste wood plants) over 20MW then please see the Biofuelwatch map of UK Biomass Power Stations. Those concerned about biomass plants, including waste wood plants, should email Biofuelwatch at biofuelwatch[at]gmail.com.

Please be aware: There is always room for improvement, so please send updates to coordinator@ukwin.org.uk. Existing Incinerator means a facility that is operational or under construction/commissioning. A Potential Incinerator is a facility where there is a proposal for an incinerator (e.g. planning application or planning consent) or other reason to believe an incinerator might be built/proposed in the future. A Prevented Incinerator is something which used to be a proposal or expected incinerator which we do not believe is currently being progressed (e.g. because the project was cancelled, planning permission refused, or years have gone by since the permission was granted without any progress) - in some cases a facility marked as prevented is being progressed without us being aware or is subsequently revived. Capacity is usually the permitted or maximum advertised capacity of the facility.