enfinium, a leading UK energy-from-waste operator, today publishes its Positive Impact Report 2025. The report highlights strong progress towards our wider ambition to transform our facilities into decarbonisation hubs, with two CCS pilots deployed, and our new fifth facility, Skelton Grange, showcasing how our ambition to decarbonise power and heat is becoming a reality. Throughout the year, enfinium diverted over 2.3 million tonnes of unrecyclable waste from landfill, avoiding over 340,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions and generating enough energy to power over 600,000 homes.
Highlights of the report include:
Mike Maudsley, Chief Executive of enfinium, said, “2025 was a year of significant progress for enfinium, marked by project delivery and continued focus on our objective to turn the UK’s unrecyclable waste into homegrown energy. We are especially pleased to have marked the completion of our Skelton Grange facility in Leeds, which began operations in September, adding a fifth facility to our fleet. Alongside this, we increased construction activity at our sixth facility, Kelvin in the West Midlands, as we continue to invest in future capacity. Looking to the future, 2025 also saw two successful pilots of CCS technologies at Parc Adfer and Ferrybridge 1, making us the only EfW operator in the UK operating two CCS pilot technologies simultaneously.”
Philip Curds, Head of ESG and Sustainability, said, “We’re pleased to have shown significant progress on our Net Zero Transition Plan throughout 2025, working to increase waste processing volumes alongside delivering significant construction projects to support our future growth. Importantly, despite this heightened level of activity, our colleagues and contractors delivered these projects without any increase in personal safety incidents. This is a testament to our strong safety on purpose culture, which underpins everything we do”.
enfinium made significant progress in advancing our decarbonisation ambitions throughout the year. In North Wales, we shared plans for a carbon capture storage (CCS) project at Parc Adfer, shortlisted by the UK Government as a standby project for the HyNet network and with the potential to become the largest carbon removals project in Wales.
enfinium also continued to make important progress to decarbonise its existing facilities. Innovations included the trial of Wasteer’s visual AI technology at Ferrybridge 2 and Parc Adfer, working to identify contaminants entering the waste stream, helping to minimise downtime and improve overall facility performance. We also continued to expand the use of leak detection technologies such as those provided by Distran, reducing emissions across our facilities and improving efficiency.
In 2025, greater waste processing volumes, construction activity and working hours resulted in moderately higher greenhouse gas emissions for the year, 1,355,690 tCO2e³ (2024; 1,071,525 tCO2e). This is in line with guidance set out in enfinium’s Net Zero Transition Plan, which sets out our pathway to achieve net zero across our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2033, significantly ahead of the waste industry target of 2040.
The electrification of our mobile plant helped to lower plant emissions, with diesel replaced by electric forklifts, scissor lifts and cherry pickers. The launch of an employee salary sacrifice EV scheme, alongside additional EV charging points across our sites is expected to further reduce our Scope 3 emissions for employee commuting.
Download the full enfinium Positive Impact Report 2025 here.
Notes to editor
1. tCO2e stands for tonnes (t) of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (e).
2. The enfinium Community Benefit Funding programme includes £50k annual payment to Parc Adfer Community Fund as per a Public Private Partnership contract, as well as any grant funding from enfinium’s corporate Charity and Volunteering fund.
3. Total fossil greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1, 2, 3) in 2025.
About enfinium
enfinium is a leading UK energy from waste operator with five operational sites in the UK, in West Yorkshire, Kent and Flintshire, and one in construction. enfinium diverts 2.7 million tonnes of unrecyclable waste from climate-damaging landfill, putting it to good use by turning it into home grown energy, enough to power 600,000 UK homes. enfinium’s ambition is to transform its facilities into local ‘decarbonisation hubs’ powered by the millions of tonnes of unrecyclable waste the UK will produce for decades to come. Using existing energy from waste infrastructure, enfinium could contribute to heat networks, produce electrolytic hydrogen, or use carbon capture technology to provide durable, high quality carbon removals which will be critical for the UK to achieve net zero by 2050. For more on enfinium, please visit https://enfinium.co.uk/.
