Conference Documentation: Energy from Waste
Smi's 8th Annual Energy from Waste conference is designed to be a platfom for discussion and understanding of the developments in industry. The conference will cover a range of issues including how the circular economy will impact Energy from Waste and other updates on regulation and recycling targets. We will look at how the industry should develop in next couple of years encompassing how technology is developing and how the number of plants able to utilise heat can be increased. Merchant financing, contracts for difference and legal issues regarding these plants are also major issues that will be discussed.
This established conference will allow attendees to network with industry leaders allowing issues to be discussed, debated and solved. As a key part of the waste management industry Energy from Waste plants must be ablet to adapt to changes in the regulatory and recycling environments.
- Day 1
- 8:30
- Registration & Coffee
- 9:00
- Chairman's Opening Remarks
- John Twitchen, Executive Director, Copper Consultancy
- 9:10
- The outlook for the energy from waste industry
- Jacob Haylor, Executive Director, Environment Services Association
- 9:50
- The future of the industry from the operator’s perspective
- Kristian Dales, Sales and Marketing Director, FCC Environment
- 10:30
- Morning Coffee
- 10:50
- Waste to Everything, the competition for feedstock
- Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director, SUEZ environnement R&WR UK
- 11:30
- Research priorities for biomass gasification
- Dr Yassir Makkawi, Senior lecturer, European Bioenergy Research Institute,
- 12:10
- Lunch
- 13:30
- Encouraging Combined Heat and power
- Peter North, Senior Manager Programme Delivery Sustainable Energy Development & Environment, Greater London Authority
- 14:10
- Understand the heat project in Southwark
- Darren Merrill, Councillor, Southwark Council
- 14:50
- Developments in funding procedures for energy from waste plants
- Andrew Hartley, Director, Green Investment Bank
- 15:30
- Afternoon Tea
- 15:50
- The case study of a merchant funded project
- Peter Maclaren, Director , levenseat
- 16:30
- The importance of community liaison
- Lois Prior, Communications Manager, North London Waste Authority
- 17:10
- Insight into the Beddington Plant
- Councillor Jayne McCoy, Chair, Housing Economy & Business Committee, London Borough of Sutton
- 17:50
- Chairman's Closing Remarks
- John Twitchen, Executive Director, Copper Consultancy
- Day 2
- 8:30
- Registration & Coffee
- 9:00
- Chairman's Opening Remarks
- John Twitchen, Executive Director, Copper Consultancy
- 9:10
- An update on changing regulation
- Paul Sheridan, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
- 9:50
- Energy from waste and British policy
- Christopher Maltin, Chairman, Organic Power
- 10:30
- Morning Coffee
- 10:50
- An update on developments in Wales
- Taliesin Maynard, Head of Waste Infrastructure Programmes, Department for the Environment,, Welsh Assembly Government
- 11:30
- Understanding the refuse derived fuel market
- Alban Forster, Director, SLR Consulting LTD
- 12:10
- Lunch
- 12:10
- Energy from waste: hear from a project dealing with recycling and energy from waste
- Ian Fielding, Assistant Director - Waste & Countryside Services, North Yorkshire County Council
- 14:10
- The future of energy from waste technology
- Guillaume Perron-Piche, Policy Officer, ESWET
- 14:50
- Retrofitting efficiency improving technology
- Johnny Stuen, Technical Director, Waste to Energy Agency, City of Oslo
- 15:30
- Afternoon Tea
- 15:30
- Recent developments in waste management in Russia: new possibilities for energy from waste
- Artem Rodin, Counsel, CMS
- 15:50
- The EU and its initiatives surrounding the circular economy
- Mike Tregent, WEnvironment & Business Advisor, Waste & Illegal’s, Waste Stream Assessment, Environment Agency
- 16:30
- Case Study: Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park
- Paco Hevia , Head of Projects, Ferrovial Servicios Centre of Excellence for the Environment, Amey
- 17:30
- Chairman's Closing Remarks
- John Twitchen, Executive Director, Copper Consultancy