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EWB Insight report: August 2018
This month: Could the UK bring in an "incineration tax", EC launches bioethanol investigation, exports of RDF from the UK drop again as well as a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: June 2018
This month: Is small the future for EfW plants, policy progress on RED II and the circular economy package as well as a full round up of waste and bioenergy facilities
EWB Insight report: May 2018
This month: Legal action over a UK EfW plant has prompted calls for a change in the law, an RDF "loophole", biomass plants face feedstock shortages and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: April 2018
This month: WI Bref talks near finishing line, the EU's circular economy package progresses, new owners for Clearfleau and a full biogas, biomass and EfW facilities round up
EWB Insight report: March 2018
This month: UK AD sector faces tough economic outlook, hope for crop-based biofuels, cement sector calls for financial support to use biomass and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: February 2018
This month: Falling subsides and feedstock issues driving biogas consolidation, UK starts RHI work, Ireland pledges more support for 'home grown' biomass and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: January 2018
This month: Straw-fired power starts 2018 strongly, RED II goes the way of bioenergy, Drax to convert a fourth unit and a full facilities round up
Comment: Circular Economy - tremendous slow down
Energy-from-waste trade association CEWEP's secretary general, Dr Ella Stengler, appeals to Member States not to see landfill diversion as a burden, but as an opportunity to improve their waste management systems
EWB Insight report: December 2017
This month: IBA pushes up recycling levels, the end for coal, waste wood legislation in the UK and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: November 2017
This month: The ESA takes on Eunomia in the on-going row over a looming UK waste-capacity gap, Autumn Budget is badly received by waste and bioenergy sectors and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight report: October 2017
This month: Developing RED II looks good for the waste and bioenergy sectors while crop-based biofuels face a tough future. Plus a full round up of October's waste and bioenergy facilities
EWB Insight: September 2017
This month: Indian EfW market ripe for investment, biofuel market woes, several waste supply deals and the latest developments at waste, biomass and biogas facilities across Europe
EWB Insight: August 2017
This month: UK EfW capacity row reignites, RHI confusion continues, newly privatised GIB sell off waste and bioenergy investments and a full facilities round up
EWB Insight: July 2017
This month: Biofuel to come of age, boost for gasification, falling gate fees for biogas and EfW plants as well as a full round of waste and bioenergy facility news
EWB Insight: June 2017
This month: RED draft revealed, issues at the Poolbeg EfW development, Biffa to develop two energy recovery plants and Sweden loses imported biogas legal argument
EWB Insight: May 2017
This month: CEWEP gives some early thoughts on the first draft of the waste incineration BREF, German biogas businesses reveal mixed fortunes and several waste and biomass-fired projects reach crucial stages
EWB Insight: August 2016
This month: UK passes peak EfW development, German biogas woes continue and a full facilities update
Rise of energy recovery?
Concerns around Brexit, incineration capacity and the impact on recycling rates are clouding the energy-from waste landscape in the UK
EWB Insight: April 2017
This month: Gasification back on the agenda, biomass supports CO2 emission cuts as coal phase out begins and more boosts for the biogas sector
EWB Insight: March 2017
This month: The end of EfW catchment areas, European Commission backs biomass and a senior member of power station Drax's staff joins UK government advisory body
EWB Insight: February 2017
This month: The UK urged to ditch "ill defined" circular economy package, Commission debates over recycling type and volumes and is the EfW sector facing a "transitional" period
EWB Insight: January 2017
This month: Northern Ireland's government collapses over biomass subsidies, a stronger circular economy, plus new deals in the biomass and energy-from-waste sector.
EWB Insight: December 2016
This month: All eyes on Drax, new deals for Suez and a turn of fortunes predicted for waste processing ACT technologies
EWB Insight: November 2016
This month: The Winter Package launches a new chapter for waste and bioenergy, EfW growth led by Asia and a full facilities round up
Why 'right touch' not 'light touch' biomass regulation is what we need in Europe
Drax Group director of corporate affairs, Matthew Rivers, examines the role biomass could have in the upcoming Winter Package
EWB Insight: October 2016
This month: Bioenergy battle lines drawn up as sustainability policy due to be announced, UK bioenergy outstrips other renewables, a takeover deal for Rusforest and Biffa returns to the stock exchange
EWB Insight: September 2016
This month: Falling price of Danish waste hitting investments, Germany's waste imports fall but the amount of UK waste it takes rises and Lietuvos Energija gets EU state aid clearance for a vast multi-fuel plant
EWB Insight: July 2016
This month: UK's waste gasification sector takes a knock, ADBA conference round up and the end to subsidies for first generation biofuels post 2020
Nearly final combustion plant BREF raises standards
Gasification, plasma gasification and multi-fuel combustion added to the final draft LCP BREF
EWB Insight: June 2016
This month: UK looks to the positives for energy-from-waste after Brexit vote, EfW’s developing role in the circular economy and positive developments on coal-to-biomass conversion projects in Denmark and Belgium.
EWB Insight: May 2016
This month: Covanta returns to the UK, US imports of biomass up again and could we reach waste processing capacity by 2030?
Bioplant points to efficient future
Renescience Northwhich will be the world's first commercial full-scale bioplant of its kind when it opens next year in Cheshire. Thomas Dalsgaard reports on how enzymes and warm water will help turn household waste into energy
EWB Insight: April 2016
This month: Bioenergy businesses set out their positions ahead of the EU's sustainability consultation closing, English RDF exports rocket, Air Product's EfW business collapses and a major wood pellet producer cuts production.
EWB Insight: March 2016
This month: Could waste processing CfD projects be under threat of losing funding, pellet prices close in on oil and all the latest policy, market and facilities updates from the waste and bioenergy sector
EWB Insight: February 2016
This month: Europe's waste and bioenergy sector has experienced unprecedented investment from China. Could UK waste businesses such as Biffa be next on the Asian giant's shopping list?
EWB Insight: January 2016
This month: Bioenergy investors and operators urged to ride out the low oil price storm, Abengoa up for grabs, and EfW scores a first for carbon capture
EWB Insight: December 2015
The December insight finds the European EWB sectors ending the year in relatively good health, with technological and market development continuing apace.
EWB Insight: November 2015
The UK's decision to dump coal in November, could open the door to bioenergy
EWB Insight: October 2015
Scandinavian EfW sector will start to feel the pressure as other countries bring capacity into operation
EWB Insight: September 2015
Bioenergy industries brace for the EU circular economy package as rows over renewable energy subsidy changes sour the mood
EWB Insight: August 2015
The latest EWB Insight report covers biogas subsidy changes, Austria's plan to cut waste wood incineration as well as the latest facility and market news
EWB Insight: July 2015
The latest EWB Insight report covers Irish biomass updates, UK biogas reaching a milestone and the closure of a major German EfW plant
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