Plans are progressing to invest £200m in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales.


Easte processing company Enfinium says that the project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year as over half of the waste processed at the current facility is organic, and installing CCS would enable the plant to take more CO2 out of the atmosphere than it produces.

The proposal has been put forward for grant support from the Government as part of the expansion of their ‘Track-1’ carbon capture programme. The captured carbon will be transported using the pipeline network currently being developed in the region for the HyNet carbon capture cluster, one of the first two priority carbon capture clusters selected for development in the UK.

Mike Maudsley, CEO of enfinium, said: “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.”

Planning and consenting for the Parc Adfer CCS project will commence later this year. The Government is expected to provide an update on which projects are progressing through the Track-1 HyNet Expansion programme by the summer.

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