London energy-from-waste plant upgrades to increase green energy supply • Public-private-partnership will extend Bristol's heat network • Nordic-Scottish Summit on sustainability organised in Glasgow • Read more about the developments in sustainable heating and cooling in this month's news update from the UK
A life-time extension and expansion project for LondonEnergy’s energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in North East London will ensure continued production of low-carbon heat, electricity, and processing of waste. The facility was built some 50 years ago and has been continuously upgraded since. It processes waste from over 1.9 million people across 7 London boroughs and prevents 90% of the waste to go to landfill.
Through the upgrade, LondonEnergy will now add a new steam turbine to the production plant, allowing for more electricity to be generated and fed onto the national electricity grid. This measure will increase the green energy production by 1000MWh annually, which approximately corresponds to the use of 80,000 homes and businesses across the country.
An essential part of the project has been the implementation of new smart solutions to efficiently monitor, control and automate the entire EfW power plant. The project will further implement a new technological solution, a hub, to integrate data from the five generators, power distribution systems, grid connection, and parts of the physical waste-handling units.
These measures combined, will help making the facility smarter and increase its efficiency even further. As a result, the plant will deliver even lower-carbon energy to consumers and businesses across London, and the UK.
Read more in article from Energy Global
Building upon the UK government’s ambitions to increase the role of heat networks to supply UK homes with low-carbon heating and hot water, Bristol City Council now also increases their efforts. To accelerate the journey towards a more circular city, and to provide local homes and businesses with reliable, affordable, and low-carbon heating, the council now partners with Swedish Vattenfall and American Ameresco.
The deal includes a total £424 million to be used over the next five years to insulate homes, install heat pumps, and build a new 20km long heat pipeline. Through the initiative, the consortia plans to install five new heat networks in the city centre – St Phillip’s Marsh, Spike Island, Ashton Gate, and the Frome Gateway, and eventually connect these to the three existing networks – Redcliffe, Old Market, and Bedminster.
The planned grid extension will help recover heat which is currently being wasted at a local energy-from-waste, and feed it into heat networks in the city centre. As such, more low-carbon heating can be supplied, substituting less sustainable heating sources for local homes, businesses and public buildings in the city centre. The extension will also provide opportunities for more buildings along the new pipeline to connect to the network and gain access to the low-carbon energy it will supply.
Read more in article from Bristol Post
The Nordic-Scottish Summit 21-22 November concluded in late November after two fruitful days at Glasgow City Chambers. The event gathered over 100 delegates from across the UK, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway, to discuss and share valuable insights on how to accelerate the world’s green transition on the journey towards net-zero.
The Summit was joined by Ivan McKee, Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise and Susan Atkin, Leader of Glasgow City Council. The event alsod welcomed Jukka Siukosaari, Ambassador of Finland and Mikaela Kumlin Granit, Ambassador of Sweden to speak to the audience in Glasgow.
On the first of the two days, the event focused on the role of cities and the public sector as to tackling the climate crisis. Both national and city representatives such as Philip Raines, Deputy Director for Domestic Climate Change, Scottish Government and Lord Provost, Councillor Jacqueline McLaren participated. The event also welcomed Paul Westin, Senior Business Developer, Swedish Energy Agency, to share examples of Nordic policy work and how Nordic cities are addressing global warming.
On the second of the two days, participants had the opportunity to hear from 4 panel discussions on four key themes as the world strive to decarbonise its societies through: Offshore Wind Power, Smart Transport, Innovative Heat Networks, and Waste Free Cities.
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