For the fifth episode of the fourth series, the Burning Issue looks at health and safety in the EfW sector.

This episode focuses on: 

What happens when something does go wrong at an EfW build

“Accidents are tragic, but they can be powerful catalysts for change”

What are businesses doing to support social sustainability

Will the spread of AI support H&S and what problem could it bring

Company is currently “facilitating and supporting” around 90% of UK EfWs 

How to balance speed and safety when deadlines are looming 

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For the fourth episode of the fourth series, the Burning Issue looks at the state of the market for investors in EfW and bioenergy

This episode focuses on:

• Why the company is called Green Giraffe 
• How it’s raised £35bn 
• Why heating prisons with EfW is a captivating concept 
• SAF is a hugely growing sector
• Could failed gasification plants be converted to waste-to-X projects 
• How to get over grid connection woes 
• Turning Wotsits into biogas 

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Severnside Carbon Capture and Shipping Hub (7CO2) directors Paul Davies and Keith Birch tell the Burning Issue of the advantage of non-pipeline carbon capture and how it is developing.

This episode focuses on:

Advantages of flexible non-pipeline carbon capture 

As the EfW becomes “saturated, CCS is the big area for growth”

Why energy recovery can put the ‘Net in Net Zero’

Track 2 could see “some uptake of new emerging technologies”

How EfW plants could become mini-hubs for CCS

Combining SAF production with carbon capture

Government needs to extend existing Track 1 provisions to Track 2 projects 

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Encylis director of policy and sustainability Victoria Merton on carbon capture at Protos, building more facilities and banning recyclets and biogenics from landfill by 2028

This episode focuses on:

How a team of skilled engineers are looking to build CCS across Encyclis’ portfolio 

Being a year ahead of nearest rival on full-scale EfW carbon capture project 

Development of the Protos plants has hit some “speed bumps”

A ban on all recyclets and biogenics going to landfill by 2028 

Preparing for EfW’s inclusion in the UK ETS  

Building more capacity in tougher market conditions

Delivering heat from EfW in Dublin and elsewhere 

New trade body Resource Recovery UK (RRUK) 

A graduate of the University of Birmingham, Victoria Merton joined Encyclis when it was called Covanta in 2021 having held senior roles at The Peel Group. 

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Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) chief executive Bruno-Frédéric Baudouin tells EWB editor Luke Walsh talks about how the business is developing a new generation of waste processing plants.

This episode focuses on:

• HZI evolving progressively into the leading EfW builder globally
• How the business has, mostly, avoided the financial issues plaguing other EPC builders 
• Moving into the O&M market
• Fixing plants left unfinished by others  
• Developing a CCS pilot in the UK with Enfinium 
• Why waste-to-X is the future of the sector 

Now based in Zürich, French national Bruno-Frédéric Baudouin, joined HZI in 2018. He previously held senior roles at GE Power and Alstom Power. A former student at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris in the 1990s he also achieved a Master of Business Administration from leading business school the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in 2004.

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EWB editor Luke Walsh talks to Enfinium's director of external affairs and strategic policy Karl Smyth about building carbon capture at the UK’s largest EfW site 

This episode focuses on:

• Developing a CCS pilot at the Ferrybridge EfW site next month 
• What comes next after the permitting pause and expected strategic review of EfW capacity 
• With a general election due will a change of government increase focus on the waste sector
• UK ETS will “encourage innovation around contracting” 
• Two more EfW plants expected operational next year 
• How a total of six EfW facilities is “probably” enough for the company
• Why carbon capture is like squeezing a double decker bus through a small pipe network

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EWB editor Luke Walsh talks ESA executive director Jacob Hayler as the development and future of the UK’s energy-from-waste sector is thrown into the air by the government’s controversial block on new environmental permits. 

This episode focuses on: 

• Could an EfW moratorium be in Labour’s general election manifesto  
• “Political interference” in the permitting process
• Should DEFRA minister Steve Barclay resign?
• Government has spread investor concern over the entire permitting process
• Industry has a “perception that there is a lack of coordination and joined up clarity” within the current government 
• EA struggling with lack of funds and “too many constraints” 
• Concerns including EfW in the UK ETS will lead to “carbon tourism or leakage”

Hayler joined the ESA from the city in 2005 as an economist, and has worked to develop market-focused policies that combine environmental and economic sustainability. He also has responsibility at the trade body for policy relating to finance, tax, carbon management, contracts and of course EfW.

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EWB editor Luke Walsh talks to Gallagher partner Ian Lester.

This podcast covers:

• Why insurers won’t be covering the permitting process anymore 
• Operational plants unable to find insurance 
• Understanding the risks around carbon capture 
• Finding a box of hand grenades dumped in waste
• SAF projects are “receiving a lot of interest”
• Fires in Netherlands and US have concerned insurers covering the sector
• How council can cover facilities as PFI deals end.

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EWB editor Luke Walsh talks to Waste Knot Energy’s CEO Ian Jones.

This episode focuses on:

• Developing a new market for waste-derived pellets
• Exporting pellets from the UK for the first time 
• Why the government needs to provide a framework for the EA and other departments “to be more successful”
• How biogas could reduce WKE’s CO2 footprint to “almost zero”
• Why more businesses will enter the waste-to-pellet market 
• Investors need to know the era of rapid payback on waste projects has ended 
• Could power stations like Drax run on waste?

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EWB editor Luke Walsh talks to OCO managing director Graham Cooper. This episode focuses on:

• What goes into producing limestone aggregate
• Using “expensive carbon intensive and non-renewable materials is an outdated view”
• Landfilling APCr through derogations needs to be “looked at” 
• Pushing the business beyond the UK 
• How does OCO’s carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technology work?
• The long-standing link between the aggregates and waste industries 
• Expanding current facilities and opening news one 

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