Avonmouth RRC
An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology, Avonmouth RRC has a forecast operational capacity of 320,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Viridor. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility will processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste[1]
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| Waste Licence | SP3301LA |
| Operator | Viridor |
| Region | South West |
| Operational Capacity | 377ktpa |
| Is site R1? | No |
| When was R1 Granted? | |
| What was the R1 value | 0.79 |
| Electrical Capacity | 34.00MWe |
| Number of Lines | 2 |
| Number of Turbines | 1 |
| CHP | No |
| Technology Approach | EfW Incineration |
| Funding Type | Merchant |
Operators Annual Report
Input Data
| Year | HH | C&I | Clin | RDF | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2017 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2019 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2020 | 62242.00 | 5560.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 67802.00 |
| 2021 | 224024.00 | 61194.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 285218.00 |
| 2022 | 285872.00 | 77959.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 363831.00 |
Output Data
| Year | IBA | IBA %ge of Tot IN | APC | APC %ge of Tot IN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 0.00 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 0.00 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 0.00 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 0.00 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 13125.00 | 19.36% | 3018.00 | 4.45% |
| 2021 | 54483.00 | 19.10% | 6375.00 | 2.24% |
| 2022 | 73948.00 | 20.32% | 7135.00 | 1.96% |
Summary
An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology, Avonmouth RRC has a forecast operational capacity of 320,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Viridor. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility will processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste[2]
History
The Avonmouth RRC facility started construction in summer 2017 and has secured tonnage from Somerset Waste Partnership through the extension of their existing PPP of around 100,000 tonnes per annum and secured[3] tonnage through competitive tender for Residual Waste from the West of England Partnership, replacing the existing PPP contract with New Earth Solutions/Panda MBT plant. The balance of the West of England Partnership Residual Waste tonnage for EfW of 50,000 tonnes per annum has been secured by Suez facility at its Riverside Resource Recovery Facility (RRRF), located close to the Avonmouth RRC facility.
Plant
The plant was built by a JV between CNIM and Clugson (although Clugson went into administration in December 2019[4]) and the plant was handed over by CNIM to Viridor in December 2020[5] under a Design & Build EPC-turnkey contract at a cost of £252m. The plant is assumed to be similar to Viridor's Ardley EfW, comprising 2 lines of 20 tonnes/hour design capacity capable of treating 300,000 tonnes per annum via standard combustion technology Martin Reverse Acting Grate, generating super-heated steam, configured to run on primarily residual Household Waste.
Local Authority Data
The table below lists those local authorities who have recorded their tonnage on WasteDataFlow as sending their Waste to this site (either directly or via a transfer station) for the most recent financial year, data was updated on Error: no local variable "updated" has been set.. The tonnage received cannot be directly compared with the stated historical tonnage received and recorded in the EA statistics as these are recorded on a calendar year basis (i.e. January 2018 to December 2018). The total Local Authority waste received by the plant in the period was: 0t
A 'zero return' or a below expected return, when compared to the EA Data below indicates that either:
- no local authority tonnage was recorded/no tonnage was sent to the site in the period (but has been listed as it may have previously received tonnage from a local authority) or
- a result of the plant being recently commissioned and actually having received no tonnage or
- a lower than expected tonnage maybe a result of a local authority splitting their tonnage over multiple sites, having less tonnage to send than might be anticipated or
- it may be a new plant being in 'ramp up' towards full capacity after construction or
- may be a result of plant shut down and subsequent re-start in a year or
- the local authority may not have correctly entered the site's details on WasteDataFlow
| Authority | Tonnage |
|---|
Waste Tonnage, By Origin
The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit SP3301LA, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2023. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 390,136.04t. Where this tonnage exceeds that reported in year of the corresponding annual report, this may be due to the following reasons:
- Tonnage may have been received but not incinerated, i.e. the material is held pending incineration (the operator return to the EA reports as received whereas the annual report focuses on when the waste is incinerated.)
- Material may have been received into the site but treated in some other way than incineration.
- Material may have been received on the but transferred out of site for disposal/treatment at another site rather than incineration on the site.
| EWC Code | Origin of Waste | Tonnes In |
|---|---|---|
| 19 12 04 | Birmingham | 132.64 |
| 19 12 12 | North Somerset | 7184.00 |
| 19 12 12 | Oxfordshire | 822.82 |
| 19 12 04 | Wiltshire | 810.76 |
| 19 12 04 | West Lancashire | 108.92 |
| 20 03 01 | Wiltshire | 394.56 |
| 18 01 04 | Bristol | 3588.58 |
| 20 01 08 | Gloucester | 97.14 |
| 19 12 04 | Rutland | 2079.06 |
| 18 01 04 | Bath and North East Somerset | 88.08 |
| 19 12 04 | Flintshire | 55.12 |
| 19 12 12 | Pembrokeshire | 336.08 |
| 20 03 01 | Cardiff | 35.88 |
| 19 12 04 | South Ribble | 284.02 |
| 18 01 04 | Swindon | 258.86 |
| 19 12 04 | Mole Valley | 333.34 |
| 18 01 04 | Devon | 480.16 |
| 19 12 04 | Bexley | 4417.22 |
| 19 12 12 | Somerset | 56655.00 |
| 18 01 04 | Cardiff | 13.24 |
| 19 12 04 | Bristol | 1617.15 |
| 19 12 04 | Ipswich | 337.42 |
| 19 12 12 | Dorset | 73.26 |
| 20 03 01 | London | 768.20 |
| 19 12 12 | Monmouthshire | 70.28 |
| 19 12 04 | Plymouth | 541.46 |
| 19 12 04 | Manchester | 123.24 |
| 19 12 12 | Gloucestershire | 14665.20 |
| 19 12 12 | Hertfordshire | 772.66 |
| 19 12 12 | Newport | 4856.54 |
| 19 12 12 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 44.72 |
| 19 12 04 | Mid Suffolk | 1004.80 |
| 19 12 12 | Wiltshire | 1300.68 |
| 20 03 01 | Devon | 615.58 |
| 19 12 12 | Swindon | 3407.72 |
| 19 12 04 | Surrey | 115.58 |
| 19 12 04 | Slough | 856.82 |
| 19 12 04 | Leeds | 186.16 |
| 19 12 12 | Bristol | 114383.28 |
| 19 12 04 | North Northamptonshire | 75.72 |
| 19 12 12 | Gloucester | 35034.45 |
| 19 12 04 | Gloucester | 48.88 |
| 19 12 12 | West Northamptonshire | 21.62 |
| 19 12 04 | Milton Keynes | 18.42 |
| 19 12 04 | Lincolnshire | 158.26 |
| 20 03 01 | Swindon | 19292.34 |
| 19 12 04 | South Kesteven | 44.54 |
| 19 12 12 | Bath and North East Somerset | 82371.88 |
| 20 03 01 | Bristol | 11737.08 |
| 19 12 04 | Cheltenham | 61.60 |
| 18 01 04 | West Yorkshire | 122.34 |
| 20 03 01 | Exeter | 731.60 |
| 19 12 12 | Herefordshire | 2130.24 |
| 19 12 12 | Neath Port Talbot | 1212.38 |
| 19 12 04 | Nottinghamshire | 63.74 |
| 19 12 04 | Reading | 144.76 |
| 19 12 04 | Breckland | 319.33 |
| 19 12 04 | Havering | 121.00 |
| 19 12 04 | Medway | 10949.57 |
| 19 12 04 | Outside UK | 311.96 |
| 19 12 12 | Cardiff | 162.76 |
| 19 12 12 | Tunbridge Wells | 103.20 |
| 19 12 04 | Salford | 137.08 |
| 19 12 04 | Norwich | 845.06 |