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'Structurally inadequate' AEB to blame for EfW shutdown - report
Netherlands: Last year’s financial and operational crisis at the EfW business was due to poor risk management, an over-confident board and a lack of interest from the municipality
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EIA backs Slovakian SRF-processing project
Up to 160,000t/yr could be co-fired in a coal-processing plant
500,000t/yr EfW plans dropped
UK: “Option agreement” to develop RDF-fired facility has lapsed
DB Cargo UK and Drax sign five-year biomass deal
UK: “Hook and haul” deal will see about 100,000 tonnes a week taken by rail to Drax from the ports of Immingham and Hull
Cardiff Council launches £19.1m EfW-fired heat tender
UK: Planned system would source the majority of its heat from Viridor’s Trident Park facility
Technology backed for full-scale CSS at Oslo EfW plant
Norway: About 400,000t/yr of CO2 could be captured from the EfW plant, the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road
Court rules Hull EfW plant’s ‘main purpose is power generation’
UK: Ruling establishes facility’s primary activity is “energy generation, rather than waste treatment”
Biomass-to-heat sector ‘faces collapse’ over policy changes
UK: Trade bodies says there is a “huge risk” over how the RHI-support scheme is replaced
Nature Energy and Shell sign ‘world’s largest’ biogas deal
Denmark: Precise details of the deal are not being disclosed, but companies have confirmed no one has ever agreed a bigger biogas contract
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Denmark: Ørsted to buy biomass barges and tugs
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UK: Biffa 'disappointed’ at waste exports appeal defeat
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UK: Tender for 70We EfW plant can be issued
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UK: United Utilities mothballs biogas plant
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Germany: EfW plant powers hydrogen bus facility
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Ireland: Ervia extends biomethane tender
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UK: Strike action looms at Drax
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Germany: RWE and Eon deal completes
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UK: Envirofuel backed for SRF-production site
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UK: Waste transfer and recycling facility approved
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UK: Permit consultation on Viridor’s methane-stripping plant
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UK: Permit consultation start into clinical waste facility
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UK: PowerHouse issues Waste2Tricity takeover update
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UK: Consultation into Veolia’s new EfW plant opens next week
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UK/US: CoalSwitch-producing facility progresses
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Italy: Iren tenders for carbon to treat fumes at EfWs
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UK: Plan to change Leicestershire MBT to a MRF
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UK: Fire-rated ductwork at Avonmouth EfW plant
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Finland: Metsä Group’s Kemi bioproduct plant work to start in August
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Ireland: Green Party politician calls Ringaskiddy EfW ‘deal breaker’ for new government
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EWB Comment and Analysis
EWB Insight report: June 2020
This month: Political moves hit the EfW sector in Denmark and Germany, politician backtracks after criticising a waste to energy plant, MVV wins “rare” ruling, Amey’s Waterbeach facility loses appeal, and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: May 2020
This month: Could CCS at biomass-fired and EfW plants be on the brink of commercial scale success, legal challenge to EU’s bioenergy support is shut down, UK sets new bioenergy record and a new energy recovery plant is planned for Essex
EWB Insight report: April 2020
This month: Facilities moved forward for Wheelabrator, several other UK-based EfW plants progressed, while policy and business remains severely affected by the global coronavirus outbreak
Biogas plants winning the battle against grit
Taking digesters offline to remove the debris that inevitably builds up over time is anathema to many operators. One company tackled the problem by combining a powerful degritter with a chopper pump. Christopher French reports
EWB Insight report: March 2020
This month: Coronavirus outbreak and subsequent lockdown hits the waste and bioenergy sector, Viridor is due to have new owners and a coal-to-waste conversion develops. Read also our full facilities roundup
