Protos Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) will provide 500,000 tonnes of annual treatment capacity for non-recyclable waste when it becomes operational.
The facility, which is now in commissioning, is located near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, within the Protos strategic energy and resource hub.
In processing non-recyclable residual waste, the Protos ERF will generate up to 49.9 megawatts of electricity – enough to power 75,000 UK homes.
Protos ERF is set to be the home of the UK’s first full-scale carbon capture facility for Energy-from-Waste. As part of a programme led by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, our Protos carbon capture and storage (CCS) plan has been selected as a lead project. It will prevent up to 370,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
