Biomass power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 53.4251, -2.4195.
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SAICA Paper Mill is a 135 MW biomass power station in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by GDF SUEZ ENERGY UK. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 186k homes (estimated). It ranks #154 of 2,860 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2013, it is around 13 years old — relatively modern. In context, biomass supplies about 14.1% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000132.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000407763); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 135 MW, SAICA Paper Mill is well above the median biomass plant in United Kingdom (2 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by GDF SUEZ ENERGY UK.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 53.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 18% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 60/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #2 largest biomass power plant of 227 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 227 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 3,654 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 53.4251, -2.4195 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
SAICA Paper Mill is a 135 MW source-record biomass power plant in England, United Kingdom, commissioned in 2013.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 185,837 homes (estimated).
SAICA Paper Mill is operated by GDF SUEZ ENERGY UK.
