Steven's Croft is a wood-fired

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...

near

Lockerbie Lockerbie (, ) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, located in south-western Scotland. The 2001 Census recorded its population as 4,009. The town had an estimated population of in . The town came to international attention in December 1988 when ...

in Scotland. It started energy production in 2008. It is operated by

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and produces 44 MW of electricity, burns 60% waste from timber production, 20%

coppice Coppicing is the traditional method in woodland management of cutting down a tree to a tree stump, stump, which in many species encourages new Shoot (botany), shoots to grow from the stump or roots, thus ultimately regrowing the tree. A forest ...

d wood, and 20% recycled fibre. It claims to save 140,000 tonnes of

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es a year. It uses 480,000 tonnes of fuel per year to produce 126 MW of thermal energy, and the boiler is optimised to run at 537 °C and of pressure. Aqueous wastes are dispersed using a wetland filtering system.

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AW Jenkinson Forest Products
{{UK-powerstation-stub Biofuel power stations in Scotland