Runcorn EfW

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One of the largest ERF facilities in the UK, Runcorn EfW has a permitted operational capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per annum and is operated by Viridor and owned by Viridor and Ineous Chlor. Delivery of waste is by both road and rail and the facility processes both residual Household Waste and Commercial Waste in the form of RDF[1] and in April 2021 it applied to received unprocessed residual MSW waste.


Runcorn EfW
Operational
Site Location
Site Location

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Waste Licence XP3005LB
Operator Viridor
Region North West
Operational Capacity 1,100ktpa
Is site R1? Yes
When was R1 Granted? 2019-07-31
What was the R1 value 0.94
Electrical Capacity 51.00MWe
Number of Lines 4
Number of Turbines 2
CHP Yes
Technology Approach EfW Incineration
Funding Type PFI

Operators Annual Report


Input Data

Year HH C&I Clin RDF Total
2016 0.00 0.00 0.00 867660.00 867716.00
2017 0.00 0.00 0.00 890933.00 890933.00
2018 0.00 0.00 0.00 884331.00 884331.00
2019 0.00 0.00 0.00 962234.00 962234.00
2020 0.00 12641.00 2.00 930798.00 943441.00
2021 983717.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 983717.00
2022 929714.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 929714.00


Output Data

Year IBA IBA %ge of Tot IN APC APC %ge of Tot IN
2016 192298.88 22.16% 32042.80 3.69%
2017 198563.19 22.29% 33575.76 3.77%
2018 197623.41 22.35% 30746.42 3.48%
2019 207406.00 21.55% 32044.00 3.33%
2020 209552.00 22.21% 29557.00 3.13%
2021 208434.00 21.19% 33577.00 3.41%
2022 195222.00 21.00% 29002.00 3.12%

Runcorn 1&2 ERF
Runcorn 1&2 ERF

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Summary

One of the largest ERF facilities in the UK, Runcorn EfW has a permitted operational capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per annum and is operated by Viridor and owned by Viridor and Ineous Chlor. Delivery of waste is by both road and rail and the facility processes both residual Household Waste and Commercial Waste in the form of RDF[1] and in April 2021 it applied to received unprocessed residual MSW waste.

History

The Runcorn facility was built in two phases with 425,000 tonnes per annum capacity in each phase. The initial capacity focused on the solution delivered as part of the PFI for GMWDA (Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, now Greater Manchester Combined Authority) and was then subsequently extended to deliver a capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes per annum to reflect the lower Calorific Value of the fuel delivered than was anticipated in the design for 850,000 tonnes per annum. The facility is a CHP plant, located on Ineous Chlor's site in Runcorn, generating 83MWe of electricity (design point vs 100MWe listed capacity) and 51MWth of heat for the adjacent chemical manufacturing site

Plant

Built by Keppel Seghers under a Design & Build EPC-turnkey contract. Phase 1 commenced in 2009 and was handed over in January 2015, and phase 2 commenced in 2010 and handed over in April 2015 at a contract value of GBP £390 million [3]. The plant comprises 4 lines (2 in each phase) of standard combustion technology comprising Keppel Segher's proprietary water-cooled grates, generating super-heated steam, and is configured to run on RDF with a 'design point' CV of 11.5MJ/kg

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: 722,954.07t

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
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council 33739.010
Blackpool Borough Council 449.200
Bolton MBC 1711.320
Bury MBC 1201.460
Cardiff County Council 3.430
Ceredigion County Council 1.860
Cheshire East 78987.330
Cheshire West and Chester 23245.834
Chorley Borough Council 305.200
Denbighshire County Council 151.070
Flintshire County Council 15.837
Fylde Borough Council 164.130
Greater Manchester WDA (MBC) 490453.200
Halton Borough Council 2159.920
Hambleton District Council 8.370
High Peak Borough Council 28.060
Lancashire County Council 21189.720
Manchester City Council MBC 2630.300
Merseyside WDA (MBC) 914.980
Nottinghamshire County Council 348.160
Oldham MBC 1353.410
Pendle Borough Council 154.190
Preston City Council 132.790
Ribble Valley Borough Council 75.640
Rochdale MBC 1280.760
Rossendale Borough Council 73.700
Salford City Council MBC 62.650
Sandwell MBC 5270.290
South Ribble Borough Council 266.980
Stockport MBC 1740.660
Stoke-on-Trent City Council 379.840
Trafford MBC 1313.810
Warrington Borough Council 52110.330
West Lancashire Borough Council 174.320
Wigan MBC 526.370
Wrexham CBC 56.760
Wyre Borough Council 273.180

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit XP3005LB, 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: 929,858.51t. 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 12 Stoke-on-Trent 25777.86
19 12 12 North Lanarkshire 48.12
19 12 12 Cheshire West and Chester 181527.53
19 12 12 Merseyside 42789.22
19 12 12 Preston 1119.86
19 12 12 Nottingham 656.48
19 12 10 Manchester 414760.35
19 01 12 Cheshire West and Chester 144.02
19 12 12 Manchester 240541.25
19 12 12 Derby 483.26
19 12 12 Wales 16095.08
19 12 12 Lancashire 5915.48


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