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Scottish Borders Council claims top spot for landfill diversion
Majority of waste is sent to energy recovery, with the council also revealing an increasing recycling rate
Wärtsilä lands biogas upgrading and liquefaction deal
Latvia: New facility is expected to become fully operational by the end of next year
Slough Multifuel applies to raise power capacity to 60MWe
UK: Facility wants to expand power capacity, but will keep the same waste processing capacity
Drax considers legal action over BBC’s biomass allegations
Canada/UK: BBC has focused ‘primarily on the views of a vocal minority who oppose biomass’, says the power company
BIR and Rå Biopark both launch plans for new biogas plants
Norway: Separate tender process for new biogas-producing facilities have been launched
Aviva reduces interest on multi-million biomass plant loans to 0%
UK: Three primarily biomass-fired facilities have loans totaling more than £400m, about 50% of which is considered “impaired”
EWB Insight report: September 2022
This month: Essex waste deal and Viridor’s Tilbury EfW plant, Fortum targets UK-based EfW developments and Northacre developers look again at gasification technology
Nature Energy opens 300,000t/yr Køng-based biogas plant
Facility moves Denmark “closer to becoming self-sufficient" in gas
Malvern clinical waste-processing plant to be mothballed
UK: EWB understands several attempts to bring the facility up to its capacity have failed and the plug is to be pulled on the development, a move that also threatens its sister facility
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EWB Insight report: July 2022
This month: The UK is reviewing English EfW capacity, a court confirms the Environment Agency was entitled to withdraw permission for the export of hazardous waste to an island in Norway, financial close and the start of construction for a Glasgow-based 350,000t/yr EfW plant and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: June 2022
This month: Scotland to block new EfW capacity, energy recovery looks like joining EU ETS from 2026, industry waits on Essex waste deal and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: May 2022
This month: European Commission fails to back bioenergy, UK local authorities face legal action over failed waste-gasification plant and Indaver finally starts building Essex-based EfW plant
EfW industry needs to invest in training next generation of plant operators 3/3
Experienced EfW engineer and consultant Roberto Vogel voices concerns over training the next generation of energy-from-waste plant operators and investigates how the sector can modernise. Part three of three
EfW industry needs to invest in training next generation of plant operators 2/3
Experienced EfW engineer and consultant Roberto Vogel voices concerns over training the next generation of energy-from-waste plant operators and investigates how the sector can modernise. Part two of three
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