National law firm Weightmans has helped the Broad Group secure funding for the development of a new 12MW energy recovery facility (ERF) in Mid Wales. The Weightmans team, led by partners Levent Gürdenli, Sarah Walton and Brian Ghatan, performed the corporate, commercial, tax work and property due diligence for the…

Buckinghamshire’s energy from waste plant is on track to save £150-million over 30 years. The Greatmoor site has just passed its third anniversary, generating power for 40,000 homes by burning non-recyclable waste. That’s helping to save the County Council £5-million a year, on average. The plant is the largest single…

The new long-term contract, which Geminor won through an official tendering process, binds the resource management company to export a total of 100 000 tonnes of waste wood produced at Danish Vestforbrænding. The contract has a duration of four years, and first export will commence 1. October this year. The recycled…

Leading energy tech company Limejump has signed a new flexible Power Purchase Agreement with Alphagen Renewables, which develops and operates small to medium scale landfill gas to energy projects. Limejump will manage six of Alphagen Renewables’ operations in the UK, including the Docking Biogas plant in Norfolk, through its pioneering…

Globally, Governments are seeking to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the fight against climate change, to reduce waste to landfill, and to increase the use of renewable energy in compliance with international agreements. Consequently, in many countries, subsidies have been made available to encourage the growth of the biogas…

The new long-term contract, which Geminor won through an official tendering process, binds the resource management company to deliver a total of 85 000 tonnes of Municipal mixed waste and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) to the Estonian energy company Enefit Green. The contract has a duration of three years. Waste fuels will…

The City of Oakland and Neste announce that waste feedstock from the city is now being converted to Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ and fuels the city’s fleet. The City of Oakland, Neste, fuel distributor Western States Oil and local collectors for used cooking oil joined forces to gather waste cooking…

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2 April 2019 – The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with global additions of 171 gigawatts (GW), according to new data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today. The annual increase of 7.9 per cent was bolstered by…

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) on its acquisition and development of the Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant which, when operational, will be one of the UK and Europe’s largest energy-from-waste (EfW) plants. The £480 million Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant project has been given the green light for construction…

Resource management company Geminor is experiencing an increased interest in export of RDF and SRF from several waste facilities all over Germany. The new regulations on the sorting of German waste leads to higher demand, especially from the Nordic markets. As of early February, Geminor started exporting secondary fuels from Germany to Sweden, and is now also commencing export to the…