Circular Economy Meets Energy Union : VIDEO: Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants’ 8th Congress
Around 170 participants attended the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants’ 8th Congress in Rotterdam, with the theme of entitled ‘Circular Economy Meets Energy Union’.
The event included high level presentations from, among others: Fulvia Raffaeli, European Commission, DG GROW; Jorge Diaz del Castillo, European Commission, DG ENVI; Thomas Astrup, DTU Copenhagen Mario Grosso, Politecnico di Milano; Kerstin Kuchta, TH Hamburg. and Peter Quicker, RWTH Aachen.
CEWEP Managing Director, Ella Stengler presented data for residual non-recyclable municipal waste showing that the Waste-toEnergy (WtE) sector is far away from overcapacity on the European level.
She also reminded the audience that WtE’s input is also residual commercial and industrial waste. On energy policy, she stated that synergies with existing and further exploitation of District Heating/Cooling systems and steam delivery to industry are low hanging fruits.
She presented CEWEP’s common statement with recycling industries on metal recycling from bottom ash. Recycling these metals help saving 3.2 million tonnes of GHG emissions.
A Technical Session led by CEWEP’s Lighea Speziale, presented the state of play of the Review of BREF Waste Incineration (WI) and the sector’s point of view on the main issues:
How the revised Associated Emission Levels (BAT-AELs) will be used to set Emission Limit Values in permits in the future
How the relative uncertainty, which becomes more important when the measurements are close to 0, becomes an issue and requires caution, since the future BAT-AELs will be used to set legally binding Emission Limit Values
The fallouts of having two different regimes of compliances in the Industrial Emissions Directive (Effective Operating Time as a special regime for WI).
A video with some of the highlights from the event can be viewed below
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