Energy from Waste, 15-16 March 2023

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Welcome
Speaker
Jeff Gibbon
Director
EfW Consulting Ltd; Chairman
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Feedstock – how much is there, where is it, what’s its composition and what will it look like in the future?

With much debate around volumes, capacity, policy impacts and demands from other industries,  feedstock is at the top of the agenda for current and future plants.  Simone Aplin, Technical Director , Anthesis and Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director, Suez Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd consider current and future outlooks.

Speakers
Stuart Hayward-Higham
Chief Technical Development & Innovation Officer
Suez Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd
Simone Aplin
Technical Director
Anthesis
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ETS, carbon pricing and energy markets: what impact will these have on waste to energy revenue streams ?

The old certainties of gate fees being a primary revenue source for energy from waste plants are disappearing – the new reality will see waste to energy plants operating in a more volatile and less controllable environment of carbon pricing and energy markets. What does this mean for the waste to energy sector? Adrian Judge and Richard Howard consider capacity, volume, carbon pricing and energy markets  to explore the implications  for the waste to energy sector.

Speakers
Adrian Judge
Director
Tolvik Consulting
Richard Howard
Research Director
Aurora Energy Research
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Cost of living crisis and energy crisis, ETS and policy developments – how are all these factors impacting on local authority decision-making in relation to waste management, recycling and waste to energy? (title tbc)
Speaker
Sam Horne
Chair
National Association of Waste Disposal Officers (NAWDO)
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How the waste, resources and waste to energy industries in Europe are responding to the macro factors of changing economic and energy situations and to impacts from policy and regulation.
Speakers
Kjetil Vikingstad
CEO
Geminor
Jakub Bator
Managing Director
Krakowski Holding Komunalny S.A.
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Refreshments
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Keynote address: residual waste – an overview of recent policies and the Residual Waste Reduction Target (title tbc)
Speaker
Tom Parrott
Team Leader, Residual Waste and Infrastructure
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Leaders’ Panel – how do industry leaders view the landscape for waste to energy going forward and where do they see their organisations heading over the next 10 -15 years?

Leaders of some of the UK and Europe's top waste management and waste to energy companies explore the critical challenges, changes and opportunities which their organisations are facing.  They will discuss topics such as -      How are you balancing the existential factors of energy markets, net zero goals and circular economy policies with current waste to energy markets and operations?       How do you see feedstock changing over the short and medium term and what impact will this have on your business?     Going forward, will carbon be the problem or the opportunity and how will this play out across fleets of varying plants?       Where do you see growth in the medium term, and what will the waste to energy industry look like in the next 10 – 15 years?

Speakers
Owen Michaelson
CEO
Encyclis
Sébastien Petithuguenin
CEO
Paprec
John Scanlon
CEO
Suez recycling and recovery UK
Pierre Dorel
Chief Operating Officer
Viridor
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Lunch
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Policy updates for the waste CCS business model
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What are the benefits of delivering a project via an EPCM model and how do we overcome/manage investment risk under this model? Will the use of the EPCM model become common for use on projects in the UK?
Speakers
Gary Cochrane
Senior Vice President, Clean Energy Renewable Segment
Babcock & Wilcox
Helen Moon
Head of EfW
AFRY UK
Robert Sedgman
Commercial Lead, North London Heat and Power Project
North London Waste Authority
Nathan Bradberry
Partner
Bevan Brittan; session chair
Adam Hinds
Director and Founder
Redbourn Capital
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Lessons learnt on CCS implementation

Lessons learnt so far on CCS implementation at the Hafslund Oslo Celsio CCS project

Jannicke Gerner Bjerkas, Director CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage), Hafslund Oslo Celsius

How to Lose Waste without Counting Carbon - A Decade of Learnings from CCUS

Rebecca Eason, Head of Market CO2 Management, Technip Energies

Speakers
Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås
Director CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage)
Hafslund Oslo Celsio AS
Rebecca Eason
Head of Market CO2 Management
Technip Energies
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The emissions trading scheme - what are the implications for the waste to energy industry?
Speakers
Fabio Poretti
Technical & Scientific Officer
CEWEP - Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants
Dr Christian Hower
Managing Director
MVV Umwelt GmbH
Robert Corijn
Marketing Manager
Attero
Adrian Judge
Director
Tolvik Consulting
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Plant construction - with construction delays affecting many plants, this session drills down into the details of plant build and asks whether, and how, improvements can be made to established methods
Speakers
Simon Marr
Managing Director
Marr Contracting
Siegfried Scholz
Managing Director
Standardkessel Baumgarte
Ian Crummack
Cobalt Energy; Speaker / Session chair
MD
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The Runcorn ERF CCS project: an update on the UK’s first waste to energy CCS (title tbc)
Speakers
Dr Tim Rotheray
Director of ESG & External Affairs
Viridor
Nadeem Arshad
Partner
Bevan Brittan; session chair
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Further developments in innovative climate technologies: EU Certification of carbon removal and EU Innovation Fund.
Speakers
Adrian Judge
Director
Tolvik Consulting
Christian Holzleitner
Programme Director
EU Innovation Fund
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Refreshments
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Kirklees efw –what is the strategy for an ageing plant and what was the decision-making process?

An examination of how the council’s net zero goals and the approaching end of the plant’s contractual period provided an opportunity for local development.

This is followed by a wider discussion on the strategies for ageing plants - the questions to ask, the analysis to be considered.  With panel guest, Euston Ling, NLHPP Head of Technical Assurance, NLWA

Speakers
Cllr Naheed Mather
Cabinet Member for Environment
Kirklees Metropolitan District Council
Euston Ling
NLHPP Head of Technical Assurance
North London Waste Authority
James Snape
Partner
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
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Growth markets for waste to energy - Australia and the Middle East

The Middle East

James Cook, Executive Director, Tribe Infrastructure Group

Waste to energy development in Australia – how significant are the opportunities and what solutions is Australia looking for? 

Mac Irvine, Director | Head of Industrials, CEFC

Speakers
James Cook
Executive Director
Tribe Infrastructure Group
Mac Irvine
Director, Head of Industrials
Clean Energy Finance Corporation
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Ways forward for CCS delivery on waste to energy plants

How can we decarbonise dispersed energy from waste plants?  Paul Davies, Director 7CO2, CCS advisor to Viridor

With over half of the UK’s energy from waste plants sitting away from CCS pipelines, how will they decarbonise with impending ETS carbon pricing?  The session will consider progress on CO2 shipping and local capture and rail transportation and the economics of regional carbon capture.

Decarbonising Energy-from-Waste – integrating a post-combustion capture facility.  Adya Deshmukh, Senior Process Engineer, Fluor Ltd

Speakers
Paul Davies
Director 7CO2; CCS advisor to Viridor; lead, CCS Association Non Pipeline Transportation working group
Viridor
Paul James BSc MSc
Technical Director
SLR Consulting Ltd ; session chair
Adya Deshmukh CEng
Senior Process Engineer / CCUS Technology
Fluor Ltd
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CCS delivery - project and technical updates

Accelerating the transition using next generation modular carbon capture plants.

Second generation carbon capture plants based on modularity and mass production principles are coming to the market. We discuss why these are a solution for accelerating the deployment of carbon capture.

Jon Christopher Knudsen, Chief Commercial Officer, Aker Carbon Capture

Key technical & commercial considerations in the development of a CCS plant on a multi-line, multi plant EFW – SUEZ Teesside  journey so far.

Stuart Hayward-Higham, Chief technical development & innovation officer, SUEZ Recycling & recovery UK Ltd

Speakers
Jon Christopher Knudsen
Chief Commercial Officer
Aker Carbon Capture
Stuart Hayward-Higham
Chief Technical Development & Innovation Officer
Suez Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd
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Emerging technologies: essential infrastructure for future-proofing the pathway to net zero? What’s needed to create a secure investment environment?
Speakers
Martin Hopkins BSc, MBA, MIChemE, CEng
Project Director, Next Generation Renewables
Greenergy
James Barrett-Miles
Chief Investment & Strategy Officer
KEW Technology
James Snape
Partner
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Oliver Caunce
Country Manager
Geminor
Elizabeth Lawrenson
Senior Consultant
NexantECA
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Ageing plants - revamping and refurbishing

Upgrading an ageing plant for extended life and improved output – case study

Mark Tipton, Director of Business Development, UK & Ireland, Babcock & Wilcox

With follow up discussion panel

What is the strategy for an ageing plant and what are the decision-making processes?  The factors of cost, longevity, performance and long-term goals are all finely balanced and every plant has a set of unique factors.   Technical experts and leading advisors discuss the issues that need to be addressed as plants age and move towards the end of a contractual period .

Speakers
Mark Tipton
Sales Director UK & Ireland, Babcock & Wilcox
Babcock & Wilcox
Juergen Schaper Dipl.-Ing. (TH) CEng MIMechE
Head of Operations and Maintenance, General Manager Lincolnshire EfW
FCC Environment
Derek Rooney
Programme Director
Local Partnerships
Alban Forster
Infrastructure Sector Leader - Europe
SLR Consulting Ltd; session chair
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Drinks reception
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Welcome
Speaker
Cobalt Energy; Speaker / Session chair
MD
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Policy discussion - what will the impact be from developments in EU and UK policies on resources and residual waste?

An exploration of the resource and residual waste policies in Europe and the UK  - are there significant differences?  What can we learn from these and how will they shape developments going forward?

Speakers
CEO
Indaver; President, CEWEP
Managing Director
Levenseat
Executive Director
Environmental Services Association
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Investor views - with high energy markets and ESG continuing at the top of agendas, waste to energy still seems very attractive – but how long will this last and what’s the longer term outlook?
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Developing a global waste to energy portfolio for the future
Speaker
CEO, Varme Energy
Green Transition Holding
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Refreshments
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The future vision of waste to energy

The Integrated Resource and Recovery Facility 

Patrick Clerens, Secretary General, ESWET

Energy from Waste 4.0 – how EEW sees future structures, partnerships and development plans for the resource and energy centre in the medium term.

Thomas Obermeier, Head of business development EEW; CEO TOMM+C (management and consulting company); Hon President DGAW;

Waste to energy to hydrogen to e-fuels – the logical kick start to the hydrogen economy

Daniel Marenne, Energy Solution Architect, Engie Generation Europe , Engie

Speakers
Secretary General
ESWET
CEO
Hon President DGAW; Head of business development EEW; CEO TOMM+C (management and consulting company)
Energy Solution Architect, Engie Generation Europe
Engie
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Key note address - Waste to transport fuel: UK SAF policy update and the role of UK industry
Speaker
Deputy Head of Low Carbon Fuels
Department for Transport
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Waste to fuel and SAF – the next stage in the waste to value sector?

With policies and funding coming through to encourage investment into SAF, and a planned SAF based flight across the Atlantic later this year, development into this sector is clearly being encouraged.  But what are the challenges?  This panel of top industry experts, who represent a range of stakeholders, explore the risk factors, from  feedstock to technology, from market stability to construction challenges and more.

Speakers
Deputy Head of Low Carbon Fuels
Department for Transport
Project Director, Next Generation Renewables
Greenergy
Chief Executive
Renewable Transport Fuel Association
Responsible Consumption & Production Lead, Technical Director
WSP Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited
Strategy Lead
KEW Technology
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Lunch
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Heat Network Zoning – what this means for Energy from Waste plants
Speakers
Head of Market Growth for Heat Networks
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Head of Innovation and Proposals
MVV UK
Chief Strategy Officer
Vital Energi; session chair
Managing Director Local Authority Lending
UK Infrastructure Bank
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The RDF market - how is it changing and what is the longer term outlook for the industry?
Speakers
Managing Director
Eunomia; Session chair
Totus Environmental; chair, RDF Industry Group
Managing Director
Commercial Director UK Processing
Beauparc
CEO
Geminor
Head of Market Reporting
Suez
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Developments in resource recovery from bottom ash and residues

Valorization of waste to energy plant fly ash to a valuable resource material: A holistic processing approach

Gabriel Carneiro Braga, Research Associate, TU Bergakadamie Freiberg

Extracting the best from the rest – capturing valuable materials from waste to energy flue gas residues

Giovanna Chiara, Senior Sales Manager EfW, Hitachi Zosen Inova

Speakers
Senior Sales Manager EfW
Hitachi Zosen Inova AG
Research Associate
TU Bergakadamie Freiberg
Commercial Director
Augean; session chair
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Quantafuel – Chemical recycling and decarbonising of feedstock – two sides of the same coin
Speakers
Chief Commercial Officer (COO)
Quantafuel
Responsible Consumption & Production Lead, Technical Director
WSP Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited
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The Bristol City Leap project

This major, twenty-five year project, brings in private investment and  includes a major expansion of Bristol’s district heat network, with wind, solar and other energy-efficiency measures to dramatically decarbonise the city.  Is this  a template for cities going forward?

Speakers
Cabinet member for climate, ecology, waste and energy
Bristol City Council
Head of Innovation and Proposals
MVV UK
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Velocys Altalto Immingham waste to jet fuel plant – a project update (title tbc)
Speakers
Vice President, Waste to Fuels
Velocys Technologies Limited
Partner
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
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Refreshments
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Waste to hydrogen - a large scale case study

Large scale waste to hydrogen to e-methanol case study of the EEW, Engie, OCI, HyNetherlands project 

Daniel Marenne, Energy Solution Architect, Engie

Generation Europe , Engie Energy from waste and electrolytic hydrogen – providing low carbon fuel for the circular economy and grid support

Wayne Robertson, General Counsel and Executive Committee lead for ESG, Net Zero, Policy & Regulation and Communications, enfinium

Discussion  - the synergies  for hydrogen development from waste to energy, the hurdles to be addressed.

Speakers
Energy Solution Architect, Engie Generation Europe
Engie
General Counsel and Executive Committee lead for ESG, Net Zero, Policy & Regulation and Communications
enfinium
Former Chairman and Acting CEO Powerhouse Energy Group Plc; session chair
Session chair
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Industry debate - What infrastructure do we need to gain optimum value from residual waste? What policy do we need to get there?
Speakers
Executive Director
Environmental Services Association
Chief Sustainability & External Affairs Officer
Suez Recycling & Recovery UK
Waste as Resource Champion
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Partner
gunnercook; President of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Technical & Scientific Officer
CEWEP - Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants
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Close of conference
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