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‘Energy from waste’ operator Enfinium is bidding for a UK government grant to create a new carbon capture and storage plant at its Parc Adfer facility in Wales, with the aim of accelerating efforts towards net zero.
The operator has announced a £200m investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at its facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project has the potential to capture up to 235,000 tonnes of CO2 every year.
Currently the plant diverts up to 232,000 tonnes of unrecyclable waste from landfill.
With CCS installed, the plant will contribute towards decarbonising the waste sector in the region, in line with the Welsh government’s ambition of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2035.
According to Enfinium, as over half of the waste processed at the facility is organic, installing CCS would enable the plant to take more CO2 out of the atmosphere than it produces.
“To deliver a net zero carbon economy, Wales needs to find a way to produce carbon removals, or negative emissions, at scale. Installing carbon capture at the Parc Adfer facility would transform it into the largest generator of carbon negative power in Wales, decarbonise unrecyclable waste and support the green economy in Deeside and the wider North Wales region,” said Mike Maudsley, CEO of Enfinium.
The company is bidding for a UK government grant to create this CCS facility, which will be considered alongside rival bids as part of the government’s expansion of its Track-1 HyNet Expansion programme. Planning and consenting for the Parc Adfer CCS project will commence later this year.
At the Parc Adfer CCS facility, the captured carbon will be transported using the pipeline network currently being developed in the region for the HyNet carbon capture cluster.
“North-east Wales has an exciting opportunity to leverage technologies like carbon capture and hydrogen to produce the sustainable goods and services of the future. It is critical that projects like those at Parc Adfer move forward as quickly as possible to maintain our competitive advantage over other countries,” said Ben Burggraaf, CEO of Net Zero Industry Wales.
