Parc Adfer EfW

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The Parc Adfer Energy from Waste facility was developed by and is operated by Wheelabrator, located at the Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire, North Wales. The facility accepts 200,000 tonnes per year (although an application has been made to extend the permit to 232,000 tonnes) of residual waste as a feedstock from household, business and commercial sources, and produces both electricity and heat through a combustion system as a CHP plant. The waste feedstock is locally supplied by the 5 counties in the North of Wales representing the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project[1].

Parc Adfer EfW
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Waste Licence AB3092CV
Operator Enfinium Parc Adfer Operations
Region Wales
Operational Capacity 200ktpa
Is site R1? No
When was R1 Granted?
What was the R1 value 0.67
Electrical Capacity 19.00MWe
Number of Lines 1
Number of Turbines 1
CHP Yes
Technology Approach EfW Incineration
Funding Type PPP

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year HH C&I Clin RDF Total
2020 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2021 116445.00 82852.00 172.00 0.00 199469.00
2022 111095.00 87092.00 0.00 0.00 198187.00


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2020 0.00 0.00% 0.00 0.00%
2021 41103.00 20.61% 5255.00 2.63%
2022 42516.00 21.45% 4235.00 2.14%

Parc Adfer EfW. Wheelabrator, 2020.
Parc Adfer EfW. Wheelabrator, 2020.


Summary

The Parc Adfer Energy from Waste facility was developed by and is operated by Wheelabrator, located at the Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire, North Wales. The facility accepts 200,000 tonnes per year of residual waste as a feedstock from household, business and commercial sources, and produces both electricity and heat through a combustion system as a CHP plant. The waste feedstock is locally supplied by the 5 counties in the North of Wales representing the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project[1].

History

Wheelabrator Technologies was selected as the preferred bidder to build and operate the Parc Adfer EfW in 2014, entering into a 25 year contract as a Public Private Partnership (PPP). Support was given by the Welsh Government as the facility serves the five local authorities that make up the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project (NWRWTP). Planning consent was granted by Flintshire County Council in May 2015, and the environmental permit was granted by Natural Resources Wales in October 2015, leading financial close being reached and construction beginning in December 2016 with the full commercial operations starting December 2019[1].

In December 2020 Wheelabrator announced the sale of their UK energy from waste division to the European Diversified Infrastructure Fund III, a fund managed by First Sentier Investors (FSI) (formally known as First State Investments) headquartered in Australia[2] for completion in early 2021.

Plant

The process technology and the EPC for the plant was supplied by CNIM, with Clungston responsible for the civil engineering works. The project was initiated by the Welsh Government and the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project Partnership to achieve long-term targets for recycling and diversion of waste from landfill for Flintshire County Council, Isle of Anglesey County Council, Gwynedd County Council, Conwy County Borough Council, Denbighshire County Council[1].

The project financing was £180 million which was supplied with a 23-year term loan from the Green Investment Bank, MUFG, Natixis and Siemens, with an equity bridging loan provided by Barclays[1].

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: 76,534.19t

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
Denbighshire County Council 17703.550
Derbyshire County Council 3070.770
Flintshire County Council 33026.505
Telford and Wrekin Council 22625.240
Wrexham CBC 108.120

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit AB3092CV, 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: 198,187.47t. 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 Gwynedd 31157.56
20 03 01 Chesterfield 2406.10
18 01 04 Flintshire 67.08
20 03 01 Wirral 604.02
20 03 01 Stoke-on-Trent 2416.04
20 03 01 Merseyside 15122.72
20 01 99 Flintshire 1123.43
19 12 12 West Midlands 414.62
20 03 01 Greater Manchester 16.78
20 03 01 Ceredigion 1599.04
20 03 01 Conwy 29562.92
19 12 12 Manchester 210.52
19 12 10 Bristol, City of 25.04
20 03 01 Flintshire 32925.60
19 12 12 Flintshire 16052.26
19 12 12 Wrexham 3265.32
20 03 01 Cardiff 25.40
20 03 01 Isle of Anglesey 18906.34
20 03 01 Derbyshire 81.10
20 03 01 Powys 7283.06
20 03 01 Sheffield 94.54
20 03 01 Shropshire 21933.04
20 03 01 Lancashire 893.40
19 12 12 Herefordshire 793.46
20 03 01 Herefordshire 293.86
20 03 01 Manchester 260.40
20 03 01 West Midlands 350.68
19 12 12 Gwynedd 73.38
20 03 01 Denbighshire 9110.48
20 03 01 Bristol, City of 1101.26
19 12 10 Merseyside 18.02


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