Enfinium is expanding its carbon capture efforts with two pilot projects at its North Wales and West Yorkshire waste-to-energy plants. By April 2025, the company plans to relocate an existing carbon capture and storage (CCS) pilot from its Ferrybridge-1 facility in Yorkshire to the Parc Adfer site in Flintshire. This will be the only active carbon capture trial in Wales, potentially capturing up to 235,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually.
Kanadevia Inova will handle the installation at Parc Adfer, while a new CCS pilot will be launched at Ferrybridge. The Ferrybridge project, led by UK-based Nuada, will test a vacuum swing process using metal-organic framework (MOF) technology to improve carbon capture efficiency.
Enfinium is investing £1.7 billion in carbon capture technology across its facilities, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2033. The Parc Adfer pilot is also being considered for funding under the UK Government’s Track-1 HyNet Expansion programme, which supports industrial decarbonisation.
The energy-from-waste (EfW) sector remains controversial, with critics arguing that incineration is not a sustainable solution. However, Enfinium maintains that even with national recycling targets met, the UK will still generate millions of tonnes of non-recyclable waste annually. The Climate Change Committee and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies estimate that EfW could contribute five to eight million tonnes of carbon removals per year by 2050.
