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Cardiff EfW-to-heat network gets funding
UK: Local authority first tendered the heat network project last month, which will be connected to Viridor’s Trident Park EfW plant
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Ørsted still hopes Renescience plant will be operational this year
UK: Latest financial report states facility should be declared operational this year, more than three years behind schedule
Groundbreaking takes place for waste-fired heating network
Austria: System will source heat from a 100,000t/yr EfW facility
Legal challenge wants UK to include EfW plants in future ETS scheme
Anti-incineration campaigner is challenging omission of EfW plants from the proposed UK emissions trading system as being “directly against” the Paris Agreement
Investor confidence ‘collapse’ sees Doncaster EfW plant drop gasification
UK: Facility is the developer’s second under-development plant to apply for consent to drop the use of gasification for a grate-based system
Environment Agency temporarily pulls free-permitting advice
UK: Firms seeking permits for installations such as EfW, biogas or biomass-fired facilities can no longer benefit from the free service
Plans in for Uniper’s 472,100t/yr multifuel plant
UK: Facility is planned for the site of the coal-fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
Covanta ‘encourages’ dialogue after EfW protest
UK: Protesters tried to block access to the under-construction Rookery South EfW plant, even though no work was actually taking place during the action
Weltec Biopower and Nordmethan to operate under same name
Germany: New business name offers a “close link” between biogas plant construction and operation
Latest Project News
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UK: Edmonton EfW build reaches ‘major construction milestone’
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Czechia: Hazardous waste-fired plant deal goes unsigned
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UK: Veolia confirms £102m Norfolk EfW deal
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UK/Netherlands: Andusia sign contract with Sackers
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UK: More time allowed for landfill site legal agreement
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UK: Enforcement notice appeals for unauthorised wood-chipping dismissed
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UK: Call to revoke Barry biomass plant’s environmental permit
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UK: Norfolk tenders WTS deal
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UK: Drax biomass cargo deal extended
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Portugal: EIB agrees loan for paper plant biomass boiler project
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Greece: Envitec starts construction of 1MW biogas plant
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UK: Plans for replacement EfW plant withdrawn
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Italy: Liquefied biomethane plant to open in September
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UK: Wheelabrator’s K3 plant cleared to increase capacity
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Poland: Flood waste to be burned in Rzeszów EfW plant
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UK: Viridor’s Cardiff EfW plant processes millionth tonne of waste
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Germany: EfW plant operator opposes waste supply by rail
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France: EfW plant to power hydrogen fuel system
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Norway: Tender issued for bio coal-producing pyrolysis plant
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Italy: Iren agrees EfW plant’s overhaul deals
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EWB Comment and Analysis
How can the waste sector help the UK accelerate towards net zero?
David Cullen, programme director for the North London Heat and Power Project, considers a new report from Policy Connect about the waste sector’s role in achieving ‘net zero’
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
