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The concept of generating energy from waste is not new but up until recently wasn’t a viable option because landfill tax wasn’t high enough to allow non-landfill technologies to compete with landfill. It is with that mind that UK Coal and Peel Environment are planning to build 11 EfW (energy from waste) plants in the North and in the Midlands.
The project is in its early days but it took a huge step forward after UK Coal shareholders approved to establish a project partnership with Peel Environmental.
UK Coal’s executive chairman Mr. Johnson Cox is overseeing the mining giant’s involvement in the waste joint venture as it is part of his strategy to reduce the company’s debts.
“This proposed waste to energy joint venture with the Peel Group will enable UK Coal to benefit from, and mitigate the risk and cost of, the development of eleven sites in the Company’s property portfolio,” he said.
And added
“These sites have not been identified as suitable for alternative development uses. This represents part of UK Coal’s focus on simultaneously unlocking and developing the maximum value from its property portfolio.”
These waste to energy projects are set to focus on converting commercial and industrial waste into energy by utilising EfW plants. Such waste management solution is already in development by other counties around the UK, which is the case of Exeter who just approved the construction of its first waste to energy plant.
As explained by Peel Environment:
“At an £80/t landfill tax, the total cost of landfill would rise to approximately £100/t and at such levels it is considered that there are a number of alternative waste treatment technologies (including mechanical biological treatment, anaerobic digestion and large thermal plants such as incineration with energy recovery) which are capable of operating at a lower total cost to users than landfill. Accordingly, there is an opportunity to target C&I residual waste for disposal in non-landfill treatment technologies.”
Peel Environment which is the expert in exploiting potential energy-from-waste sites by obtaining planning permission has identified several sites within UK Coal property portfolio suitable for the development of waste facilities. In total the joint-venture plans to build 11 EfW plants in several locations in the North and the Midlands and they are:
• Asfordby Mine, Leicestershire
• Bilsthorpe Colliery, Nottinghamshire
• Cutacre Industrial site, Bolton
• Gedling Colliery, Nottinghamshire
• Houghton Main Mine site, Yorkshire
• Kellingley Colliery, Yorkshire
• Meriden Quarry, West Midlands
• Tetron Point, Derbyshire
• Wardley Coal Disposal point, South Tyneside
• Waverley, Yorkshire
• North Selby, Yorkshire
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