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Power plant proposal for Bedfordshire
Waste firm Covanta Energy has confirmed its plans to build an energy-from-waste (EfW) power station plant in Bedfordshire capable of using household and business waste as a fuel to generate heat and electricity. The EfW plant will be capable of taking up to 600,000 tonnes of waste per year. The waste will come from Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The EfW will be located at the Rookery Pit site ...
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House prices unaffected by incinerator plants - Cranfield research
A new research study has found no significant effect of waste incinerator plants on long term local property prices. The installation of waste incinerator plants – or Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities – is often contested in the UK. Arguments such as health, cost, noise, odours, traffic movement, resources depletion and house prices are often cited as reasons against the ...
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Devon PFI draws companies to bidders` event
More than 40 potential bidders for a £796 million private finance initiative deal in Devon attended a briefing day in Plymouth this week. Organised by The South West Devon Waste Partnership, a range of companies from different waste related disciplines were invited to find out more about the 28-year contract and councils involved. A partnership spokeswoman said: “Although the information ...
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Covanta Holding Corporation to Present at the Deutsche Bank 2012 Clean Tech, Utilities and Power Conference in New York, NY
Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA) ("Covanta" or the "Company"), a leading global owner and operator of Energy-from-Waste ("EfW") projects, is scheduled to participate in the Deutsche Bank 2012 Clean Tech, Utilities and Power Conference in New York, NY on Monday, May 14, 2012. Sanjiv Khattri, Executive Vice President and CFO, will be speaking at 4:55 pm (Eastern). A live webcast of ...
By Covanta
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Veolia given until end of July to submit further evidence relating to rainworth EfW plans
Veolia Environmental Services Nottinghamshire have been given until the end of July by the Planning Inspector to circulate a shadow assessment of building and operating an energy from waste (EfW) facility in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire. The call comes as a result of the pre-Inquiry meeting into the controversial incinerator planned for the former colliery site. This meeting follows the second ...
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Energy from Waste Conference 2018 programme announced
MA Business, organisers of the highly influential Energy from Waste Conference, today announced details of the 14th annual event, taking place 27th February-1st March 2018 in London. Hosted in association with Recycling Waste World magazine, the conference is now open for delegate bookings at: www.efwconference.com Delivered under the heading Economic and Operational Best Practice for ...
By MA Business
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Biffa plans to expand operations in Staffordshire
A public consultation is being held for residents of Cannock, Staffordshire as Biffa plans to expand its anaerobic digestion (AD) facility and build an energy from waste (EfW) plant in the area. The plans, yet to be formally submitted, relate to the Poplars and neighbouring Kingswood sites in Cannock where Biffa already manages a large landfill site. In November last year, MRW reported that ...
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Three planned incinerators called into question
Three planned energy from waste (EfW) incinerators are to be reviewed pending decisions on whether they will go ahead at all, pointing towards a shift away from incineration as a method of waste treatment. It is believed that spiralling costs and a dramatic reduction in residual waste arisings have put a question mark over the plans to build EfW facilities in Hull, Coventry and Leeds. Senior ...
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MPs call for IPC to assess the sustainability of energy from waste fuel sources
The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) should have a greater role in assessing the sustainability of energy from waste (EfW) fuel sources, according to a new report by the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee. The report entitled The proposals for national policy statements on energy focuses on the Government’s proposals on national policy statements (NPSs), which will form ...
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West Midlands £1bn incinerator scheme halted
A controversial £1bn energy from waste (EfW) plant proposed for Coventry has been halted causing the public consultation and planning application to be postponed. The plan for the incinerator forms part of a joint waste PFI for Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council known as Project Transform. However, a change in political control in some ...
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Government decides not to increase incinerator bottom ash tax
The Treasury is dropping its proposals to increase the rate of landfill tax paid on incinerator bottom ash. Last year (April 2009), the Treasury launched a consultation entitled Modernising Landfill Tax Legislation and proposed to tax incinerator bottom ash at the higher rate for active waste, which is currently £48 per tonne, as opposed to the lower rate for inactive waste which is currently ...
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Tidy Planet commissioned for first full-size RDF Small Waste Incineration Plant
Organic waste and Energy-from-Waste (EfW) solutions specialist, Tidy Planet, has sold a new plant to Brooke Energy, in Exeter. The Small Waste Incineration Plant (SWIP) is replacing a redundant biomass facility that Brooke Energy recently acquired. The new combined heat and power system will process three tonnes per hour – 24,000 tonnes per annum – of refuse derived fuel (RDF) from ...
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Global waste-to-energy market set to prosper through 2016
According to new analysis the global waste to energy (WTE) market earned revenues of $17.98 billion in 2012 and will rocket up to $28.57 billion in 2016. More waste-to-energy plants are likely to be created in China, the United Kingdom, Central and Eastern and India, due in part to higher population densities. Within the latest International W2E Market Bulletin it is clearly shown that the ...
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Cory announces plans for world’s biggest energy from waste decarbonisation project
Cory, one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies, has today announced plans to develop a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project following the Government’s commitment to support CCS for the waste sector. Cory intends to apply CCS technology to the UK’s largest single-site energy from waste (EfW) operation, with the potential to create the ...
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Covanta completes first stage in the acquisition of Veolia’s North American energy from waste business
Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE:CVA) (“Covanta” or the “Company”), a world leader in the development, ownership and operation of Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities and other renewable energy projects, today announced that it has successfully completed the first stage in the previously announced acquisition of Veolia’s North American EfW business. The businesses being acquired in this stage of ...
By Covanta
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Industry urges Government to clarify green issues in coalition manifesto
Industries are calling for more clarity about how the new Government will implement its energy and environmental policies set out in the coalition manifesto on 20 May. Both the Renewable Energy Association (REA) and the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) were supportive of the proposals to increase the target for energy from renewable sources, with ADBA saying that the AD industry ...
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Air Products to Build the World`s Largest Advanced Gasification Energy-from-Waste Facility
Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced it will build and operate the world's largest renewable energy plant in the UK using advanced gasification energy-from-waste (EfW) technology. The Tees Valley plant, located at the New Energy and Technology Business Park, near Billingham, Teesside, will be the first of its kind in the UK, and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world with an ...
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