Trident Park (Cardiff ERF)
An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Trident Park has permitted operational capacity of 425,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Viridor. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste[1]
| Trident Park (Cardiff ERF) Operational | |
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| Waste Licence | LP3030XA |
| Operator | Viridor |
| Region | Wales |
| Operational Capacity | 425ktpa |
| Is site R1? | Yes |
| When was R1 Granted? | |
| What was the R1 value | 0.00 |
| Electrical Capacity | 30.00MWe |
| Number of Lines | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 272459.00 | 97287.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 369746.00 |
| 2020 | 276146.00 | 96789.00 | 5597.00 | 872.00 | 379404.00 |
| 2021 | 274829.00 | 99409.00 | 4164.00 | 0.00 | 378402.00 |
| 2022 | 247187.00 | 107313.00 | 5689.00 | 0.00 | 360189.00 |
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 | 201.18 | 0.05% | 32.65 | 0.01% |
| 2020 | 66547.00 | 17.54% | 5573.00 | 1.47% |
| 2021 | 75423.00 | 19.93% | 8600.00 | 2.27% |
| 2022 | 66868.00 | 18.56% | 3859.00 | 1.07% |
Summary
An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology and considered an ERF based on its R1 status. Trident Park has permitted operational capacity of 425,000 tonnes per annum, operated and owned by Viridor. Delivery of waste is by road and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste[2]
History
The Trident Park facility was built primarily to service a 25 year PPP contract signed in December 2013 [3] by Cardiff on behalf of the Prosiect Gwyrdd (Project Green) partnership of five local authorities in South Wales ( Cardiff, Newport, Monmouthshire, Vale of Glamorgan and Caerphilly), with an anticipated input of 172,000 tonnes per annum of the total design capacity of 350,000 tonnes per annum - receiving additional residual Commercial Waste. It is located in Cardiff bay and has been operational since 2014.
Plant
Built by CNIM and Lagan which started in Spring 2012 and was delivered in 2014[4] at a reported [5] £206m capital cost. The plant comprises 2 lines via standard combustion technology Martin Reverse Acting Grate, generating super-heated steam, and is configured to run on primarily residual Household Waste and similar residual Commercial Waste.
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: 281,520.04t
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 |
|---|---|
| Blaenau Gwent CBC | 11669.952 |
| Bridgend CBC | 4462.770 |
| Caerphilly CBC | 40091.880 |
| Cardiff County Council | 73900.330 |
| Carmarthenshire County Council | 672.930 |
| Ceredigion County Council | 166.080 |
| Merthyr Tydfil CBC | 10239.307 |
| Monmouthshire CC | 14235.420 |
| Neath Port Talbot CBC | 6421.070 |
| Newport City Council | 26771.360 |
| Pembrokeshire County Council | 14617.150 |
| Powys County Council | 41.476 |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff CBC | 40857.840 |
| Somerset Waste Partnership | 307.760 |
| South Gloucestershire Council | 260.920 |
| Torfaen CBC | 17888.020 |
| Vale of Glamorgan Council | 18915.770 |
Waste Tonnage, By Origin
The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit LP3030XA, 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: 360,190.5t. 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 | Somerset | 0.00 |
| 02 01 03 | Cardiff | 21.08 |
| 20 03 07 | Blaenau Gwent | 1420.27 |
| 20 03 01 | Cardiff | 70537.60 |
| 19 12 12 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 40285.22 |
| 19 12 12 | Blaenau Gwent | 8965.46 |
| 20 03 01 | Swansea | 83.42 |
| 19 12 12 | Swansea | 23288.78 |
| 20 03 01 | Vale of Glamorgan | 15367.98 |
| 18 01 07 | Cardiff | 14.72 |
| 18 01 04 | Bridgend | 0.00 |
| 20 03 03 | Cardiff | 1794.49 |
| 20 01 39 | Vale of Glamorgan | 65.18 |
| 19 12 12 | Pembrokeshire | 13952.48 |
| 02 01 03 | Monmouthshire | 0.00 |
| 18 01 04 | Vale of Glamorgan | 0.00 |
| 19 02 10 | Bridgend | 105.64 |
| 18 01 04 | Bristol, City of | 1.06 |
| 20 03 07 | Monmouthshire | 3434.72 |
| 18 01 04 | Swansea | 409.38 |
| 20 03 01 | Blaenau Gwent | 25.00 |
| 19 12 12 | Newport | 28371.37 |
| 19 12 12 | Monmouthshire | 9842.45 |
| 19 12 12 | Bridgend | 214.60 |
| 18 01 09 | Bridgend | 1067.64 |
| 20 03 07 | Torfaen | 2028.45 |
| 18 01 09 | Bristol, City of | 0.00 |
| 20 03 07 | Caerphilly | 282.76 |
| 19 06 06 | Cardiff | 166.84 |
| 18 02 03 | Cardiff | 8.58 |
| 19 12 12 | Cardiff | 31915.19 |
| 19 12 12 | Gloucester | 1060.32 |
| 20 01 10 | Powys | 3.48 |
| 19 12 12 | Peterborough | 0.00 |
| 20 03 01 | Bristol, City of | 67.94 |
| 19 12 12 | Neath Port Talbot | 3444.82 |
| 19 02 10 | Swansea | 0.00 |
| 20 03 01 | Caerphilly | 25025.97 |
| 19 12 12 | Taunton Deane | 0.00 |
| 20 03 07 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 10570.36 |
| 19 02 10 | Cardiff | 121.16 |
| 19 12 12 | Torfaen | 15927.66 |
| 18 01 04 | Caerphilly | 8.88 |
| 18 01 04 | Cardiff | 5070.27 |
| 20 03 07 | Cardiff | 12480.12 |
| 20 03 01 | Carmarthenshire | 2943.58 |
| 19 05 01 | Cardiff | 115.22 |
| 15 02 03 | Swansea | 0.00 |
| 20 01 99 | Cardiff | 0.74 |
| 19 12 12 | Herefordshire | 0.00 |
| 20 03 01 | Milton Keynes | 535.64 |
| 18 01 04 | Monmouthshire | 0.00 |
| 20 03 01 | Herefordshire | 912.20 |
| 20 03 01 | Newport | 0.00 |
| 19 12 12 | Carmarthenshire | 2450.48 |
| 19 12 10 | Swansea | 0.00 |
| 19 12 10 | Bridgend | 0.00 |
| 19 12 12 | Caerphilly | 21434.38 |
| 20 03 07 | Newport | 241.05 |
| 18 01 04 | Torfaen | 222.47 |
| 19 12 12 | Bristol, City of | 343.68 |
| 02 01 03 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 0.00 |
| 20 01 10 | Cardiff | 0.00 |
| 19 12 10 | Bristol, City of | 0.00 |
| 20 03 07 | Vale of Glamorgan | 2855.50 |
| 20 03 01 | Torfaen | 24.38 |
| 18 01 04 | Newport | 7.86 |
| 18 01 04 | Gloucester | 0.00 |
| 20 03 01 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 651.98 |