Thameside Energy Recovery Facility

The first phase of this site, the Tilbury Green Power plant (a Biomass EfW project in WikiWaste), was developed by Tilbury Green Power Limited, the major shareholders at the time being the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) (now called Green Investment Group) and in June 2021 the facility was acquired by two new shareholders - Altri SGPS S.A through its wholly owned subsidiary Greenvolt (51% of the shares) and Equitex (49% of the shares) for a value of £245.5m[7].

The original planning consent for the total site permitted the total capacity to be 60 MWe with an overall waste processing limit of 650,000 tonnes per year (part Wood Waste and part Solid Recovered Fuel). A variation to this planning consent was granted, which allowed the site to operate up to 80 MWe and use up to 350,000 tonnes per annum Solid Recovered Fuel and residual waste and the permit was varied to allow the reciept of Municipal, Commercial and Industrial Waste up to 379,658 tonnes per annum[3][4].

In September 2022 it was announced that Viridor had acquired Thameside Energy Recovery Facility Ltd from ESB, which owned the right to develop, construct and operate the Tilbury Docks - Phase 2 (EfW)[2].

In November 2024 Viridor announced that they had reached financial close on the project[1].

In December 2025 Equitix increased their stake in Viridor with a path to acquire 50% of the business[8].