ENERGY FROM WASTE
New Earth wins Borders contract
Viewpoint
Energy recovery has a key role to play in the drive
towards
zero waste. The long-awaited
Renewable Heat Incentive, published
last month, set
a subsidy level that should encourage greater uptake of anaerobic
digestion, and
Artist’s impression of the new MBT facility in Scotland
New Earth Solutions has been selected as the preferred bidder for a major waste management contract with Scottish Borders Council. The contract entails the development of a new resid- ual waste treatment facility, as well as the processing of mixed dry recyclables and composting of green waste. The service will cover around
Marching on with AD build
65,000tpa of waste, of which 45,000 tonnes will be treated using MBT technology in a new facility at the council’s Galashiels site. New Earth will process the council’s mixed dry recyclables and green waste from April and the residual waste treatment facility is due to be operational from October next year.
The 24-year contract will
also include the provision of
green energy using New Earth’s advanced thermal con- version technology to gener- ate some 3MW of low-carbon renewable electricity and heat, sufficient for approximately 3,000 homes and contributing to the whole region’s renewable energy targets.
the race to build more plants is now on. Other technolo- gies are equally viable, such the gasification plant in east London which has just com- menced
construction (see
p25) – this will process solid recoverable fuel from nearby MBT plants and has got a ringing endorsement from London Mayor Boris Johnson. Overall there is lots to cel- ebrate as the waste treatment market has never been so active and diverse. Long may it continue.
Danish firm Solum enters UK organics market
Local Generation has started building its first anaerobic digestion plant in March, Cambridgeshire. The facility will have the capacity to process 30,000tpa of packaged and unpackaged food waste and will be fully operational later this year.
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Organics specialist Solum Group is set to enter the UK market to identify and deliv- er projects for its Aikan dry anaerobic digestion and in-ves- sel composting technology. Solum Gruppen, which has been processing organic waste in Denmark for more than 25 years, will open a UK office to promote its operations. The company’s decision to expand was based on a num- ber of factors, not least the Government’s policy on AD and renewable energy. Peter Hallam, the area man- ager for Aikan UK, said that both the renewable heat incen- tive and feed-in tariff scheme
offered real financial advantag- es for AD suppliers. “There is a real opportunity for synergy between waste to landfill reduc- tions and renewable energy that can be met with the Aikan process to deliver cost-effective resource management. We look forward to enabling the delivery of sustainable projects.” Henrik Mortensen, the busi- ness development director, added: “The UK is a sophis- ticated market where opera- tors are looking for bankable options. “One of the risks that inves-
tors are looking at is evidence of process outputs, we now have this.”
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