Tag Archives: Waste

Belvedere Incinerator Briefing Note

14 June 2011: Note of Bexley Council’s Environment Committee’s visit to the Belvedere Incinerator. The note provides the following information: “Testing of the [66MW]  turbine is still under way and it is anticipated it will be fully functioning by the end of May 2011. ..Members discussed the potential for the facility to become acombined heat and power plant. It was reported that the site was built to have the capability to provide heat to a local facility such as hospital if there such demand and Cory Environmental would be keen to explore such an opportunity should it arise.”

Posted in Library, News | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Unwanted fruit and veg from three of Hackney’s street markets is to be used to create green electricity

18 April 2011: Waste food from Hoxton, Broadway and Ridley Road markets will be collected by specialist recycling company Biogen Greenfinch. Further information on Hackney’s website and Biogen Greenfinch’s website

Posted in News, Renewable Energy | Tagged , | Leave a comment

£4m invested in new London waste plan

5 April 2011: The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has announced it is awarding a £4 million loan to Orchid Environmental Limited (Orchid) to set up a new plant turning household rubbish into fuel. The facility to be sited in Bexley, and which is due to be finished and operational in early 2013, will be capable of handling 160,000 tonnes of rubbish, turning it into a range of secondary recovered fuels (SRF) that can be then be used in renewable energy plants and by industrial heat users. Further information on LWARB press release.

Posted in Decentralised Energy, News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Funding approved for new gasification project

9 February 2011:The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has today agreed a £8.9 million loan to Biossence East London Ltd to support the development of what will be one of the UK’s first large scale advanced waste to energy gasification plants. Anticipated to operational in 2013 the 19MW generator will turn 100,000 tonnes of waste  each year into energy. The site has been bought from Ford, who will part-benefit from electricity generated by the plant.  Further information on the LWARB press release.  More on Bioessence here.

Posted in Decentralised Energy, News | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Carbon focus of London waste plans scrutinised

27 January 2011: The Mayor’s plans to introduce a new waste-based CO2 Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) for London boroughs, as set out in the draft of the October 2010 Municipal Waste Management Strategy for London, was debated at a recent conference in London. Further details on news story here.

Posted in Decentralised Energy, News | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Waste energy from local plant could generate heating to nearly 3,000 homes

27 January 2011: Southwark Council is working with Veolia Environmental Services looking at the possibility of heating nearly three thousand homes across five estates using waste energy from the nearby SELCHP generation plant – further details here.
Detailed information on opportunities to use heat from SELCHP are contained in an energy assessment undertaken for the Canada Water Area Action Plan (AAP). Published in three sections, the full report is available from Southwark’s website here.
Further details of Veolia’s plans for SELCHP are set out in the following Mayor’s planning report (763 Old Kent Road – search for ‘SELCHP’ in the report).

Posted in Decentralised Energy, News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Mayor’s Draft Municipal Waste Strategy

15 October 2010: Public Consultation version of the strategy which includes proposals for an innovative new carbon standard for waste management.

Posted in Library | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Costs of Incineration and Non-Incineration Energy from Waste Technologies

January 2008: GLA commissioned research to identify and compare the costs associated with both incineration and non-incineration energy from waste technologies at different scales and in different configurations.

Posted in Decentralised Energy, Library, Renewable Energy | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Greenhouse gas balances of waste management scenarios

January 2008: GLA commissioned research into the greenhouse gas impacts of waste management scenarios using lifecycle analysis methods.

Posted in Decentralised Energy, Library, Renewable Energy | Tagged , | Leave a comment