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Viridor — power plant portfolio

Viridor operates 17 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 134 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 657,326 t CO₂/yr.

17power plants
134MW total capacity
1countries
657,326t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Waste: 11 plants11WasteBiomass: 5 plants5BiomassSolar: 1 plants1Solar

Fleet interpretation

Viridor is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is United Kingdom (17).

The fuel mix by asset count is waste (11), biomass (5), solar (1). The largest listed asset is Trident Park in United Kingdom (30 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 8 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 1 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 1 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 17 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Trident ParkWasteUnited Kingdom30
Ardley EfWWasteUnited Kingdom26
Beddington EfWWasteUnited Kingdom26
Dunbar Power PlantWasteUnited Kingdom14328,663
Peterborough EfWWasteUnited Kingdom7
Glasgow Renewable Energy and Recycling Centre (Waste AD)BiomassUnited Kingdom5
Exeter EfWWasteUnited Kingdom4
Sands Farm Quarry Landfill SiteWasteUnited Kingdom4
Westbury (Closed) Landfill SiteSolarUnited Kingdom4
DunbarWasteUnited Kingdom2
Heathfield 'A' LandfillWasteUnited Kingdom2
Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT)BiomassUnited Kingdom2
Salford Refuse Treatment Plant (AD)BiomassUnited Kingdom2
South Manchester Resource Recovery Centre (AD)BiomassUnited Kingdom2
WootonWasteUnited Kingdom2
Walpole Landfill AD (Waste AD)BiomassUnited Kingdom2
Squabb WoodWasteUnited Kingdom1

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Viridor operate?

Viridor operates 17 power plants across 1 country, with about 134 MW of total capacity.

What is Viridor's largest power plant?

Trident Park in United Kingdom is its largest at about 30 MW.

What types of power plants does Viridor run?

Its fleet is mostly waste (11), biomass (5), solar (1).

How much CO₂ do Viridor's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 657,326 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology