ENDS Waste & Bioenergy Weekly

ENDS Waste & Bioenergy Weekly | 21st March 2019

The EWB Weekly brings you the top stories across the waste-to-energy and biomass energy industries straight to your inbox every week.

Top Stories This Week

Delayed Glasgow-waste gasification plant operational
Facility originally started construction in 2013, but had trouble with the insolvency of its technology supplier

Administration for Interserve after losing debt-plan vote
UK: Company’s woes stem from delays to an ill-fated venture into waste and biomass-fired plant builds

Inquiry into UK E10-introduction
UK: Closures of production facilities owned by Vivergo and Ensus prompted APPG to launch investigation

UK spring statement offers biomethane boost
Trade body welcomes move while union says natural gas will remain “essential” to the UK’s energy mix

IWB’s wood-fired plant operational
Switzerland: Two-year build has ended and facility is ready to go

Liquid-biogas plant gets greenlight
Norway: Facility is being “fast tracked” and is due to open next year

Grangemouth biomass plant faces planners again
Planning approval for the site is valid until next year, but a local authority is concerned about slow-progress impacting on promised land remediation

Biofuel sustainability criteria has palm oil ‘loophole’
Trade body and NGO criticises European Commission’s attempt to improve biofuel’s environmental credentials

Albioma signs coal-to-biomass conversion loan
France: €68m deal will allow the company to convert facility to fully fire on biomass

Wheelabrator Harewood EfW plant makes progress
UK: 65MWe facility will process 500,000t/yr if the government gives it the green light

New waste-to-energy system piloted
UK: Pilot system turns household or commercial waste into energy at the source

Wood Group to build US biofuel plant
UK-based company will develop gasification-equipped facility that will turn waste wood into biofuel

Catholic Church tenders £800m deal with biomass-fired element
Deal covers church properties in England and Wales

£10m tender for LondonEnergy IBA treatment
UK: Contract is for the firm’s under-construction replacement EfW plant

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