Javelin Park EfW

The Javelin Park EfW is located in Gloucestershire next to the M5 motorway to the south of Gloucester and is aka Gloucestershire EFW. It utilises combustion technology to convert 190,000 tonnes per year of municipal residual waste, supplied by Gloucestershire County Council, into electricity. Urbaser Ltd and Balfour Beatty were partners in a joint venture (as Urbaser Balfour Beatty) that developed, constructed and operated the plant. This EfW that has been operational since autumn 2019 and was acquired by FCC Environment in 2024 as part of their acquisition of Urbasser Ltd..

Javelin Park EfW Operational
Site Location See Residual EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Waste Licence	CP3535CK
Operator	Urbaser Balfour Beatty
Region	South West
Operational Capacity	190ktpa
Is site R1?	fal
When was R1 Granted?	2013-07-03
What was the R1 value	0.79
Electrical Capacity	14.50MWe
Number of Lines	1
Number of Turbines	1
CHP	No
Technology Approach	EfW
Funding Type	PPP

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	44788.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	44788.00
2020	130458.00	52692.00	0.00	0.00	183150.00
2021	132674.00	58561.00	0.00	0.00	191235.00
2022	127071.00	61854.00	0.00	0.00	188925.00
2023	131233.00	54580.00	0.00	0.00	185813.00

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	9967.00	22.25%	1307.00	2.92%
2020	36282.00	19.81%	4993.00	2.73%
2021	38311.00	20.03%	4800.00	2.51%
2022	42414.00	22.45%	4523.00	2.39%
2023	41066.00	22.10%	4233.00	2.28%

Javelin EfW. Urbaser Balfour Beatty

Summary

The Javelin Park EfW is located in Gloucestershire next to the M5 motorway to the south of Gloucester and is aka Gloucestershire EFW. It utilises combustion technology to convert 190,000 tonnes per year of municipal residual waste, supplied by Gloucestershire County Council, into electricity. Urbaser Ltd and Balfour Beatty were partners in a joint venture (as Urbaser Balfour Beatty) that developed, constructed and operated the plant. This EfW that has been operational since autumn 2019 and was acquired by FCC Environment in 2024 as part of their acquisition of Urbasser Ltd..

History

Urbaser Balfour Beatty was selected by Gloucestershire County Council as the preferred bidder for the 25 year contract to design, build and operate Javelin Park EfW in December 2011. Planning permission for the facility was granted in January 2015, allowing construction of the facility to commence in September 2016 that was predicted to take up to 35 months. In June 2019 the facility began to accept waste during its commissioning stage, with the construction and commissioning of Javelin Park being completed and full operations beginning in January 2020.

Plant

The plant employs inclined moving grate combustion technology. 2.9 MW of the gross generated electricity of 17.4 MW produced by the facility provides electricity needed to sustain its operation, with the remainder 14.5 MW exported to the grid.

The facility runs continuously 24/7 with a planned shutdown for around two weeks each year for maintenance.

The contract between Gloucestershire County Council and Urbaser Balfour Beatty for the development and operation of this facility has a figure in the region of £500 million.

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 2023-04-26. 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: 131,965.82t

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
Bristol City Council	925.250
Cheltenham Borough Council	528.821
Gloucestershire County Council	130276.480
South Gloucestershire Council	235.270

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit CP3535CK, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2024. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 185,813.28t.

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
20 03 01	Neath Port Talbot	4004.42
20 03 07	Gloucester	2900.34
20 03 01	Bristol, City of	1081.14
20 03 01	Dudley	4912.84
20 03 01	Wiltshire	747.46
20 03 01	Cheltenham	1835.56
20 03 07	Cotswold	1520.94
20 03 01	Forest of Dean	16015.14
20 03 07	Forest of Dean	1885.08
20 03 07	Cheltenham	383.06
20 03 01	Tewkesbury	51295.46
20 03 01	Cotswold	20271.84
20 03 01	Cardiff	3399.58
20 03 07	Stroud	4524.74
20 03 01	Wolverhampton	416.98
20 03 01	Gloucester	18300.70
20 03 01	Swindon	811.60
20 03 07	Gloucestershire	3022.98
20 03 07	Tewkesbury	2355.04
20 03 01	Gloucestershire	20613.10
20 03 07	Swindon	986.18
20 03 01	Stroud	15191.22
20 03 01	Ceredigion	1544.38
20 03 01	North Somerset	47.54
20 02 03	Neath Port Talbot	7745.96