ENDS Waste & Bioenergy Weekly
April 01, 2023
 

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Top Stories This Week
Failed Port Clarence biomass-fired plant finally confirms RDF switch
Failed Port Clarence biomass-fired plant finally confirms RDF switch

31 Mar 2023

UK: Plant originally designed to process waste wood is now looking to process up to 333,000t/yr of RDF with a buyer due to take on the project

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Varme Energy’s CEO talks UK-based EfW plans
Varme Energy’s CEO talks UK-based EfW plans

30 Mar 2023

After recently confirming a deal for the under-development Hams Hall EfW facility, the company told EWB about its current plans for up to four plants in the UK

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Petrofac to support UK’s first carbon capture and shipping hub
Petrofac to support UK’s first carbon capture and shipping hub

30 Mar 2023

Hub was launched earlier this month and also progressing with feasibility study launched to support its application for funding

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UK: Permit breach at Beddington EfW facility in early March

30 Mar 2023

 
UK/Germany: Andusia strikes 10,000t RDF deal

31 Mar 2023

 
Only two EfW plants make it through latest CCS-cluster cull
Only two EfW plants make it through latest CCS-cluster cull

31 Mar 2023

Nine-waste processing projects had been in the running at this point last year, with none making it through to one of the clusters and still no firm support for a Scotland-based hub

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Suez pressing ahead with Teesside-based EfW carbon capture project
Suez pressing ahead with Teesside-based EfW carbon capture project

30 Mar 2023

Plans were previously not taken forward by the government despite the EfW facility being on the cluster’s proposed pipeline, but today’s announcement “creates an opportunity”, according to Suez

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Both Drax and Lynemouth BECCS projects fail to get track one status
Both Drax and Lynemouth BECCS projects fail to get track one status

30 Mar 2023

Both have advanced BECCS projects planned, with Drax saying it could become unviable without financial backing for its project

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Poland: Fortum starts work on RDF-fired EfW

30 Mar 2023

 
Ireland: Policy change threatens biofuel-production facilities

30 Mar 2023

 
Two of Aviva’s flagship biomass-gasification plants now processing waste
Two of Aviva’s flagship biomass-gasification plants now processing waste

29 Mar 2023

UK: Facilities in Hull and Boston appear to have numerous issues with neither operating anywhere near expected capacities and both now taking SRF rather than waste wood

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Scottish waste stats: Energy recovery and landfilling up, recycling down
Scottish waste stats: Energy recovery and landfilling up, recycling down

29 Mar 2023

First stats released following cyber attack and come after Scotland brought in a moratorium on further EfW capacity

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Eqtec to lead feasibility study into French waste-to-RNG project
Eqtec to lead feasibility study into French waste-to-RNG project

29 Mar 2023

€1m feasibility study underway into requirements for renewable natural gas on site of former coal power station

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UK: Council drops legal-action threat over Northacre EfW

29 Mar 2023

 
Finland: New automation-technology installed at Alholmens Kraft’s biomass plant

29 Mar 2023

 
Tender issued for Devon-based EfW heating network
Tender issued for Devon-based EfW heating network

28 Mar 2023

UK: Plans include supplying heat to three new schools, 4,500 planned homes and 24,500m2 of commercial space

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Ence Biogas and Sener confirm project for six biomethane-producing plants
Ence Biogas and Sener confirm project for six biomethane-producing plants

28 Mar 2023

Spain: The new facilities are expected to start operations in 2025 and 2026

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Netherlands/Italy: AEB to process Rome’s waste

28 Mar 2023

 
Germany: Tender launch for sewage incinerator project

28 Mar 2023

 
Enfinium reveals UK’s first carbon capture rail-linked project
Enfinium reveals UK’s first carbon capture rail-linked project

28 Mar 2023

UK: Ambitious development aims to decarbonise the vast Ferrybridge Multifuel EfW facilities, which have a combined waste processing capacity of 1.45Mt/yr

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£888m Derby EfW rebuild tender-process started
£888m Derby EfW rebuild tender-process started

27 Mar 2023

UK: Work focuses on completing the failed build of a 190,000t/yr waste-gasification facility

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UK ‘bans’ nitrous oxide in boost to EfW plant operators
UK ‘bans’ nitrous oxide in boost to EfW plant operators

27 Mar 2023

Viridor has welcomed the ban after revealing last year 1000s of canister were “causing operational challenges” for its Beddington-based EfW plant

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RED negotiators prepare for horse-trading
RED negotiators prepare for horse-trading

27 Mar 2023

Swedish diplomats have asked member states to consider further raising the EU’s renewable energy target in this week’s talks on revising the Renewable Energy Directive, while indicating that the EU Council ‘stands firm’ on biomass

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Spain: Waste-to-hydrogen and methanol project unveiled

27 Mar 2023

 
France: €110m deal tendered for waste sorting facility

27 Mar 2023

 
 
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