Eastcroft EfW (Lines 1 & 2)
An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology which is not considered an ERF as a result of not having R1 status. Eastcroft has a permitted operational capacity of 200,000 tonnes per annum. It is operated by FCC Environment on behalf Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council who took over the operation of the plant in 1998. Delivery of waste is by road from a network of waste transfer stations and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste.
| Eastcroft EfW (Lines 1 & 2) Operational | |
 See Residual EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map. | |
| Waste Licence | EP3034SN |
| Operator | FCC Environment (WasteNotts) |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Operational Capacity | 200ktpa |
| Is site R1? | No |
| When was R1 Granted? | |
| What was the R1 value | 0.00 |
| Electrical Capacity | 9.00MWe |
| Number of Lines | 2 |
| Number of Turbines | 0 |
| CHP | Yes |
| Technology Approach | EfW Incineration |
| Funding Type | PPP |
Operators Annual Report
Input Data
| Year | HH | C&I | Clin | RDF | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 162541.00 | 7303.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 169844.00 |
| 2017 | 143360.00 | 7323.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150683.00 |
| 2018 | 167348.00 | 9249.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 176597.00 |
| 2019 | 188117.00 | 96.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 188213.00 |
| 2020 | 191092.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 191102.00 |
| 2021 | 166944.00 | 19059.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 186003.00 |
| 2022 | 161633.00 | 20515.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 182148.00 |
Output Data
| Year | IBA | IBA %ge of Tot IN | APC | APC %ge of Tot IN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 34403.24 | 20.26% | 4911.14 | 2.89% |
| 2017 | 29304.00 | 19.45% | 3899.00 | 2.59% |
| 2018 | 35312.00 | 20.00% | 4488.00 | 2.54% |
| 2019 | 36654.00 | 19.47% | 4728.00 | 2.51% |
| 2020 | 37544.00 | 19.65% | 4400.00 | 2.30% |
| 2021 | 36250.00 | 19.49% | 4194.00 | 2.25% |
| 2022 | 34259.00 | 18.81% | 3926.00 | 2.16% |
Summary
An EfW facility based upon conventional combustion technology which is not considered an ERF as a result of not having R1 status. Eastcroft has a permitted operational capacity of 200,000 tonnes per annum. It is operated by FCC Environment on behalf Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council who took over the operation of the plant in 1998. Delivery of waste is by road from a network of waste transfer stations and the facility processes primarily residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste.
The energy recovery process at Eastcroft generates steam, which is delivered via a pipeline to EnviroEnergy Limited, a company wholly owned by Nottingham City Council. EnviroEnergy supplies heat to a wide range of customers, including 4,600 domestic premises in the city, as well as public buildings including the Broad Marsh shopping centres, Victoria Baths, Nottingham Trent University’s Newton Building, the Inland Revenue building, the Magistrates Court, Nottingham City Council offices and the National Ice Centre. Any excess steam is also used to generate electricity which powers the facility and is also supplied to many local customers within Nottingham City.[1]
History
The Eastcroft facility was built primarily to service a 25 year PPP with Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council and became operational in 1973. It was built to treat around 160,000 tonnes per annum of residual Household Waste and some Commercial Waste throughout Greater Nottinghamshire.
During the 1990's it was upgraded to meet the emission standards imposed by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA) and European Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control 96/61/EC.
FCC Environment have also received planning consent to add an additional line to the facility at Eastcroft which will see the total amount of Residual Waste treated on site increased by a further 140,000 tonnes per annum over 3 lines. Eastcroft EfW (3rd Line) contains further details of this expansion.
In 2020 FCC formed Green Recovery Projects Ltd, a new company for its Energy from Waste portfolio to allow the subsequent sale of 49% to Icon Infrastructure. This included the Eastcroft EfW facility [2].
Plant
The plant was built in the early 1970's and as such information on the contractor and the technology used at the time is scarce.
Eastcroft comprises of 2 lines using standard combustion technology capable of treating 200,000 tonnes per annum but with a practical capacity of 185,000 with maintenance[3]. This process generates 180,000 MW of high pressure steam which is piped to the Enviroenergy district heating system on London Road, Nottingham where the turbines are housed to create electricity.[4]
The remaining water, which is no longer boiling but is still warm, is then pumped around the city to be used for central heating. [4]
Back in the early 1970s linking an energy from waste facility with district heating was the biggest of its kind in the UK costing in the region of £5m.[4]
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: 182,359.64t
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 |
|---|---|
| Derby City Council | 2096.030 |
| Derbyshire County Council | 6439.780 |
| Nottingham City Council | 90060.030 |
| Nottinghamshire County Council | 74413.160 |
| Rutland County Council | 9350.640 |
Waste Tonnage, By Origin
The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit EP3034SN, 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: 182,886.76t. 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 | Derbyshire | 7478.52 |
| 20 03 01 | Rushcliffe | 5544.40 |
| 20 03 01 | Cheshire West and Chester | 770.20 |
| 19 12 12 | Sheffield | 12.14 |
| 20 03 01 | Derby | 1481.96 |
| 19 12 12 | Erewash | 3752.60 |
| 02 01 03 | Nottingham | 1.18 |
| 20 03 01 | Nottingham | 92394.50 |
| 20 03 01 | Nottinghamshire | 63776.52 |
| 20 03 01 | Rutland | 7526.44 |
| 20 01 01 | Derby | 3.40 |
| 20 03 01 | County Durham | 144.90 |