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Scottish Power invests £36m to reduce tree damage to powerlines


BIOMASS RECYCLING CENTRE TO GET SPECIALISED CHP


Millerhill Energy & Resource Recovery Centre underway


FCC Environment has signed a £142m contract to design, finance, build and operate the Millerhill Energy and Resource Recovery Centre (RERC), Midlothian, located on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The agreement provides for a construction period of 30 months, and the start of the activity is scheduled for 2019, followed by a term of opera- tion for the next 25 years. The plant will treat about 135,000 tonnes of household waste annually and an addi- tional 20,000 tonnes of com- mercial waste.


cottish Power is investing £36 million to help reduce the risk of trees and branches colliding with overhead power lines in Scotland, Merseyside and North Wales. A total of nine maintenance contracts are now underway, which will see trees next to the 44,000km power line network managed over a three-year period. ScottishPower has used fixed wing aircraft with 3D laser scanning technology to create detailed interactive models of its network, precisely highlighting the exact locations of individual trees beside its power lines. This allows the com- pany to keep exact records of trees, plot their growth and plan maintenance.


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Overall, the project will help create 200 jobs in the UK. Guy Jefferson, SP


Energy Networks Distribution


Director, said: "Managing trees next to power lines is one of the most important maintenance programmes we deliver to keep the lights on. It means that during severe winter storms we can reduce the number of properties affected by power cuts, and reduce the time to reconnect those who do. We will always need people on the ground to carry out the work, and we are pleased that our contracts will sup- port hundreds of jobs in Scotland, the North West of England and North Wales.


"But chainsaws on the ground are now also supplement- ed by lasers in the sky, and our detailed 3D maps allow us to plot every tree next to our power lines and schedule required maintenance. Our system also accounts for regional variations, such as the fact that trees in the North of Wales grow on average 2cm more every year than those in the south of Scotland, to make sure we are cutting the right trees at the right time. In exceptional storm events we will still see trees coming down and affecting power lines, as we have witnessed in the last few winters. However, because of significant investments in tree management we are seeing up to 25% less fault activity during poor winter weather than we did a decade ago. We aim to improve these figures even further in the coming years."


eolia has won a contract to design and manage a biogas-fired combined heat and power plant in located in Gloucestershire, UK. Once fully operational, the 520 kWe plant is expected to generate 4.56 GWh per year. Its biogas fuel will be sourced from mixed food waste at Rose Hill Recycling, a composting and recycling facility which processes 35,000 tonnes of food and farm waste per year. The facility has been designed to save around 1750 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year as well as reclaiming waste which would otherwise go to landfill. Gavin Graveson, Veolia’s COO Public and Commercial, said: “Reducing food waste is very


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important, but our unavoidable and inedible food waste still has a value as a resource.” 2017 estimates show that if all the UK's inedible domestic food waste was processed by anaerobic digestion, it could generate enough electricity for 350,000 households. London households, for example, throw away an estimated 900,000 tonnes of food each


year, of which 540,000 tonnes could have been eaten. Not only is this environmentally damaging but it’s a huge waste of money for consumers, local authorities and businesses. TRiFOCAL London – Transforming City FOod hAbits for Life, was an initiative launched in 2016 led by Resource London - the partnership between WRAP and LWARB - together with Groundwork London. The organisations bid for and won €3.2million from the European Commission to deliver the initiative in London, which will be a testbed for other European cities. By the end of the initiative, a ‘food waste behavioural change resource bank’ will be developed, which can be used to help other European cities replicate the achievements of London.


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It will also generate enough electricity each year to meet the energy demand of approx- imately 32,000 households. Mr Antonio Alfonso, the CEO for FCC Environment International, tells WIP: "We


are very pleased to begin work at the Millerhill Energy and Resource Recovery Centre. This is an important project for the local communi- ty and FCC. Municipalities and authorities around the world face complex environ- mental challenges and this plant will further demonstrate our ability to provide effective waste-energy solutions under the PPP approach. "


UNIT A wood recycling site in the UK is expected to generate over £1 million in additional revenue after installing new combined heat and power technology.


The Pedigree Power recy- cling site in Northamptonshire converts around 25,000 tonnes per year of waste wood to biomass and includes a 30,000-tonne wastewater processing plant.


The addition of a steam- raising boiler and a 580 kWe genset from Heliex Power will allow the facility to become fully energy self-sufficient, providing its own power and heat.


kWe system will be twinned with one of its 103 kWe units at the facility. The new system will allow Pedigree Power to benefit from enhanced Renewable Heat Incentives (RHI) and Contract for Difference (CfD) payments. Chris Armitage, CEO of Heliex Power, comments: ‘Biomass plant operators across the UK have identified our technology as a simple way of maximizing returns and boosting sustainability even further.”


BIOGAS CHP CONTRACT FOR VEOLIA BASED ON MIXED FOOD WASTE


Heliex Power said the 580


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