Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass power stations.

The Government has made no assessment of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass stations. However, a market situation report published by Waste & Resources Action Programme UK in 2011 stated that “almost 2.3 million tonnes of wood waste was recycled or used in energy recovery in the UK in 2010, over 50% of estimated UK wood waste arisings”. Of this, the end market for 0.55 million tonnes is listed as biomass/energy.

http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Wood%20Market%20Situation%20Report_0.pdf