Private Finance Initiative

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In its desire to stimulate investment in waste infrastructure, and underpin the diversion of BMW waste from Landfill, the Government supported/subsidized a range of treatment technologies on a number of sites that were procured by Waste Disposal Authorities needing this infrastructure through a dedicated long term Private Finance Initiative (PFI). This arrangement has now ceased, several schemes which were to have been funded had their funding removed after DEFRA assessed [1] that the BMW targets could be met with the infrastructure funded to that date, and several are currently being considered by Waste Disposal Authorities for movement out of PFI after consideration of the cost benefit of continuing with the contract.

The table below is an extract from DEFRA data [2] summarizing the residual waste projects that are/were PFI and PPP projects:

Location Project/Site Classification Status Capacity [3] (ktpa) Plant Type Comment
Avonmouth New Earth Solutions PPP Operational 372 MBT Bought out of administration by Beauparc,currently services West of England, contracts lost to Suez and Viridor from 2022
Avonmouth New Earth Energy PPP Mothballed[4] 73 EfW RDF from Avonmouth MBT fed this plant, technology failed, currently mothballed
Basingstoke Chineham (Project Integra) PPP Operational 99 EfW Veolia site for Hampshire County Council
Birmingham Landor Street PPP Operational 165 MBT Example
Birmingham Tyseley PPP Operational 361 EfW Veolia site towards its end of life
Bolton Raikes Lane PFI Operational 86 EfW Example
Buckinghamshire Greatmoor PPP Operational 300 EfW FCC site
Cambridgeshire Waterbeach PFI Operational[5] 200 MBT Amey Cespa site with variable performance reported, planning being pursued for new EfW on the site
Cornwall St. Dennis PFI Operational 240 EfW Suez site
Coventry Coventry EFW PPP Operational 245 EfW Example
Cumbria Hespin Wood PPP Mothballed[4] 66 MBT Example
Cumbria Barrow-in-Furness PPP Mothballed 50 MBT Example
Derbyshire Sinfin Lane PPP In Construction 190 EfW Recent termination of contract after delays in commissioning
Dudley Lister Road PPP Operational 93 EfW Example
ELWA 1 Frog Island PFI Operational 180 MBT Renewi site servicing ELWA, recently reported financial difficulty
ELWA 2 Jenkins Lane PFI Operational 180 MBT As per ELWA 1
East Sussex Newhaven PFI Operational 234 EfW Servicing East Sussex County Council and Brighton and Hove City Council
Essex Courtauld Road PFI Operational[5] 417 MBT Servicing Essex County Council and Southend-on-Sea Council, reported operational difficulties
Exeter Marsh Barton PPP Operational 60 EfW Viridor site
Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 (FM1) PPP Operational 400 EfW Example
Gloucestershire Javelin Park PPP Operational[5] 190 EfW Example
Greater Manchester Longley Lane PFI Mothballed[4] 110 MBT Example
Greater Manchester Runcorn Phase 1 PFI Operational 325 EfW Example
Greater Manchester N. Manchester PFI Mothballed[4] 65 MBT Example
Greater Manchester Oldham PFI Mothballed[4] 99 MBT Example
Greater Manchester Salford PFI Mothballed[4] 73 MBT Example
Greater Manchester Stockport PFI Mothballed[4] 92 MBT Example
Hartlepool Tees Valley Lines 1 &2 PPP Operational 345 EfW Example
Herefordshire Hartlebury PPP In Construction 200 EfW Example
Hertfordshire Hoddesdon PPP Post Close 320 EfW Example
Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Gasification PPP In Construction 40 EfW Example
Isle of Wight Isle of Wight WM Project PPP Operational 80 MBT Example
Kent Allington PPP Operational 427 EfW FCC site servicing Kent County Council
Kirklees Vine Street PFI Operational 127 EfW Example
Colnbrook Lakeside PPP Operational 436 EfW Viridor and Grundon Joint Venture which will require moving to accommodate Heathrow 3rd runway
Leeds Cross Green PFI Operational 165 EfW Veolia site
Leicstershire Mowmacre Hill PFI Operational 165 EfW Example
Leicstershire Cotesbach PPP Operational 50 MBT Example
Lincolnshire North Hykeham PPP Operational 154 EfW Example
L.B. Southwark Old Kent Road PFI Operational 100 MBT Example
Merseyside Wilton PPP Operational[5] 440 EfW Suez site in Teeside, waste hauled by rail from Merseyside transfer station
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References

  1. DEFRA Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme
  2. DEFRA Residual Waste Treatment Infrastructure Project List dated 31st December 2016 but noted as last updated 29th March 2019 (edited with press updates)
  3. the capacity has been reproduced from the DEFRA data, but has not been verified in this table, an din some cases is known to be incorrect
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 In original data site was listed as operational this has been changed to Mothballed.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 In original data site was listed as In Construction this has been changed to Operational.