Conference programme 2023

Time Information
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:45
Feedstock – how much is there, where is it, what’s its composition and what will it look like in the future?
Stuart Hayward-Higham, Chief Technical Development & Innovation Officer, Suez Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd
Simone Aplin, Technical Director , Anthesis


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.
09:45 - 10:15
ETS, carbon pricing and energy markets: what impact will these have on waste to energy revenue streams ?
Adrian Judge, Director, Tolvik Consulting
Richard Howard, Research Director, Aurora Energy Research


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.
10:15 - 10:35
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)
Sam Horne, Chair, National Association of Waste Disposal Officers (NAWDO)


10:35 - 11:05
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.
Kjetil Vikingstad, CEO, Geminor
Jakub Bator, Managing Director, Krakowski Holding Komunalny S.A.


11:05 - 11:40
Refreshments


11:40 - 12:10
Keynote address: residual waste – an overview of recent policies and the Residual Waste Reduction Target (title tbc)
Tom Parrott, Team Leader, Residual Waste and Infrastructure , Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs


12:10 - 12:50
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?
Owen Michaelson, CEO, Encyclis
Sébastien Petithuguenin, CEO, Paprec
John Scanlon, CEO, Suez recycling and recovery UK
Pierre Dorel, Chief Operating Officer, Viridor


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?
12:50 - 13:50
Lunch


13:50 - 14:15
14:25 - 15:05

CCS, CCUS

Lessons learnt on CCS implementation
Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås, Director CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage), Hafslund Oslo Celsio AS
Rebecca Eason, Head of Market CO2 Management, Technip Energies
Stuart Hayward-Higham, Chief Technical Development & Innovation Officer, Suez Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd


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
15:10 - 15:35

Project delivery

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
Simon Marr, Managing Director, Marr Contracting
Siegfried Scholz, Managing Director, Standardkessel Baumgarte
Ian Crummack, MD, Cobalt Energy; Speaker / Session chair


Further panel members invited

CCS, CCUS

The Runcorn ERF CCS project: an update on the UK’s first waste to energy CCS (title tbc)
Dr Tim Rotheray, Director of ESG & External Affairs, Viridor
Nadeem Arshad, Partner, Bevan Brittan; session chair


Emissions trading and innovation

Further developments in innovative climate technologies: EU Certification of carbon removal and EU Innovation Fund.
Christian Holzleitner, Programme Director, EU Innovation Fund
Adrian Judge, Director, Tolvik Consulting


15:35 - 16:05
Refreshments (1)


16:05 - 16:45

CCS, CCUS

Ways forward for CCS delivery on waste to energy plants
Paul Davies, Director 7CO2, CCS advisor to Viridor, Viridor
Adya Deshmukh CEng, Senior Process Engineer / CCUS Technology , Fluor Ltd
Paul James BSc MSc, Technical Director , SLR Consulting Ltd ; session chair


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

Growth markets

Growth markets for waste to energy - Australia and the Middle East
James Cook, Executive Director, Tribe Infrastructure Group
Mac Irvine, Director, Head of Industrials , Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Jeff Gibbon, Director, EfW Consulting Ltd; Chairman


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

Ageing plants

Kirklees efw –what is the strategy for an ageing plant and what was the decision-making process?
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


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
16:50 - 17:30

CCS, CCUS

CCS delivery - project and technical updates
Jon Christopher Knudsen, Chief Commercial Officer, Aker Carbon Capture
Stuart Hayward-Higham, Chief Technical Development & Innovation Officer, Suez Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd
Paul James BSc MSc, Technical Director , SLR Consulting Ltd ; session chair


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

Ageing plants

Ageing plants - revamping and refurbishing
Mark Tipton, Director of Business Development, UK & Ireland, 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


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 .
17:30 - 19:00
Drinks reception


Time Information
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:50
Policy discussion - what will the impact be from developments in EU and UK policies on resources and residual waste?
Paul De Bruycker, CEO, Indaver; President, CEWEP
Jacob Hayler, Executive Director, Environmental Services Association
Angus Hamilton, Managing Director , Levenseat


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?
09:50 - 10:30
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?
Lekan Omoniwa, Director, equitix
Oliver Cornelis, Director Project Finance, Rabobank
Shelley De Souza, Banking Director, UK Infrastructure Bank
Stefan Barrow, Director, Infrastructure, Structured Finance Office for EMEA, MUFG Bank, Ltd


Further panel members invited
10:30 - 10:50
Developing a global waste to energy portfolio for the future
Andreas Karlsen, CEO, Varme Energy, Green Transition Holding


10:50 - 11:20
Refreshments


11:20 - 12:00
The future vision of waste to energy
Patrick Clerens, Secretary General, ESWET
Thomas Obermeier, CEO , Hon President DGAW; Head of business development EEW; CEO TOMM+C (management and consulting company)
Daniel Marenne, Energy Solution Architect, Engie Generation Europe , Engie


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
12:00 - 12:20
Key note address - Waste to transport fuel: UK SAF policy update and the role of UK industry
Dr Keeley Bignal, Deputy Head of Low Carbon Fuels , Department for Transport


12:20 - 13:00
Waste to fuel and SAF – the next stage in the waste to value sector?
Dr Keeley Bignal, Deputy Head of Low Carbon Fuels , Department for Transport
Martin Hopkins BSc, MBA, MIChemE, CEng, Project Director, Next Generation Renewables, Greenergy
Gaynor Hartnell, Chief Executive, Renewable Transport Fuel Association
Steve Vaughan-Jones, Responsible Consumption & Production Lead, Technical Director, WSP Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited
Amna Bezanty, Strategy Lead, KEW Technology


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.
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch


14:00 - 14:40

Circular economy - ashes and residues

Developments in resource recovery from bottom ash and residues
Giovanna Chiara, Senior Sales Manager EfW, Hitachi Zosen Inova AG
Gabriel Carneiro, Research Associate, TU Bergakadamie Freiberg
Richard Brooke, Commercial Director, Augean; session chair


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
14:45 - 15:10

Circular economy - resource recovery

Quantafuel – Chemical recycling and decarbonising of feedstock – two sides of the same coin
Dr Chris Lach, Chief Commercial Officer (COO) , Quantafuel
Steve Vaughan-Jones, Responsible Consumption & Production Lead, Technical Director, WSP Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited


Heat network Delivery

The Bristol City Leap project (1)
Cllr Kye Dudd, Cabinet member for climate, ecology, waste and energy, Bristol City Council
Swen Grossgebauer, Head of Innovation and Proposals , MVV UK


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?
15:10 - 15:35
Refreshments (1)


15:35 - 16:15

Hydrogen development

Waste to hydrogen - a large scale case study
Daniel Marenne, Energy Solution Architect, Engie Generation Europe , Engie
Wayne Robertson, General Counsel and Executive Committee lead for ESG, Net Zero, Policy & Regulation and Communications, enfinium
Keith Riley, Former Chairman and Acting CEO, Powerhouse Energy Group Plc; session chair


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.
16:20 - 17:00
17:00 - 17:00
Close of conference