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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
Latest News & Analysis
Wheelabrator Kemsley EfW exports first power
UK: Turbine was synchronised with the grid in just one week and less than two months after the facility’s first fire on waste
Iona seals debt deal for 11 operational-biogas plants
UK: Close of £60m debt financing after all projects were declared operational
Tolvik issues latest EfW statistics report
UK: Three new plants added 1.6Mt of total headline capacity last year when compared with 2018, according to annual report
Permit application to replace incinerator with biogas-producing plant
UK: Planning consent for the project was granted last month
UK biomass-to-energy production sets new record
New marker of 13.79% was achieved this week beating the previous record by almost a percentage point
EA ‘issues’ full permit for Rivenhall EfW plant
UK: Facility has proved controversial in the planning process, due to its permit and planning consent having different stack heights
Fortum launches NOK300m EfW plant CCS infrastructure deal
Norway: Company owns the world’s first CCS project to successfully be put into operation at an EfW plant
London’s mayor launches legal action against EfW plant’s expansion
UK: Facility faces a judicial review of the planning consent granted by the government last month
Latest Project News
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UK: Potential investors assessing waste-gasification project
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UK: Viridor sale gets shareholder sign off
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Czechia: Veolia tenders for new mulitfuel unit
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Ireland: ESB issues archaeological tender
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Serbia: Belgrade EfW plant project reaches financial close
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UK: Judge upholds Drax’s natural gas plant approval
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UK: Viridor signals venture into chemical recycling
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Netherlands: AEB confirms more waste going to EfW due to coronavirus
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UK: Trident Park EfW to stop processing recycling next month
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UK: Suez wins right to keep landfill gas compound
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Sweden: Biomass-feedstock crushing contract
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Finland: Dairy adds biogas-to-transport
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UK: Avonmouth EfW’s stack sail is a ‘technological and architectural feat’ – CNIM
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Switzerland: Work starts on KEBAG’s new EfW plant
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Germany: Sewage-to-power and heat facility under construction
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UK/Russia: Superheaters for Cory Riverside EfW plant’s ‘major upgrade’
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Netherlands: ‘Chief restructuring officer’ appointed to EfW firm AEB
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Sweden: Biogas plant tender extended
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Brazil/Finland: Valmet lands ash treatment-system deal
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Belgium: ‘Power-to-methanol’ demo plant develops
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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
EWB Insight report: February 2020
This month: Another developer fails to crack planning consent for an EfW plant in south-east UK, Drax could be coal-free in a year, wood pellets push up EU renewables, and a full facilities round-up
EWB Insight report: January 2020
This month: Dutch waste tax hits UK exports, Brexit will hit EU’s bioenergy production, AEB is up for sale and there are several EFW facilities developments
EWB Insight report: December 2019
This month: Dutch waste tax confirmed, another EfW plant builder in administration, WI BAT published, Drax to be “carbon neutral” by 2030, plus a full facilities round-up
