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The 4Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover with the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility is proud to champion the 4Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover. Through these processes, the Facility helps to divert over 90% of Gloucestershire’s household residual waste from landfill.
Read MoreGloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility release Annual Customer Survey
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has released its Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey. The survey provides local residents, suppliers, visitors, Councillors and others with the opportunity to feedback on their experience of the Facility and its employees.
Read MoreEngineering Education Grant Scheme awards grant to Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility to support GCSE education across Gloucestershire
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The Gloucestershire Energy From Waste Facility received a £12,850 grant from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) to develop GCSE Curriculum Education Plans for the benefit of students in and around Gloucestershire. The Engineering Education Grant Scheme (EEGS) provides support for UK-based educational projects that increase engineering knowledge in young people.
Read MoreGloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility two week planned maintenance outage
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility will have a planned maintenance outage for two weeks from 25th September to 9th October. During this period, the facility will be shut down and regular operations will cease. The outage allows the facility to ensure equipment is cleaned and processes are running efficiently, helping the facility to run in a way that’s cost effective and environmentally sound.
Read MoreMay emissions monitoring results published
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has published the emissions monitoring results for operational activity during May 2020.
Read MoreGloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility Unveils Newly Finished Mural
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Since the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility became fully operational and before the current Covid-19 lockdown, a number of local schools and organisations visited the facility.
Read MoreGloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility Receives its First Visitors
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In February 2020, the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste facility opened its doors to the public, receiving the first visitors to site.
Read MoreApril emissions monitoring results published
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has published the emissions monitoring results for operational activity during April 2020.
Read MoreMarch emissions monitoring results published
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has published the emissions monitoring results for operational activity during March 2020.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Statement
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In response to COVID-19, Urbaser Balfour Beatty have issued the following statement in relation to the visitor centre and ongoing operations at the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste facility
Read MoreFebruary emissions monitoring results published
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has published the emissions monitoring results for operational activity during February 2020.
Read MoreJanuary emissions monitoring results published
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has published the emissions monitoring results for operational activity during January 2020.
Read MoreDecember emissions monitoring results published
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has published the emissions monitoring results for operational activity during December 2019.
The emissions levels are set out in the facility’s Environmental Permit that was issued by the Environment Agency and reflects the emissions limits set out in the Industrial Emissions Directive.
Read MoreGloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility becomes fully operational
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The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has now become fully operational, accepting up to 190,000 tonnes of residual waste each year from Gloucestershire’s homes and Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) and produce over 116,000 megawatts hour of electricity per annum which is exported to the National Grid.
Read MoreLatest Developments from the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility
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At the end of summer, a number of commissioning tests were successfully completed, including a site blackout test to ensure the facility can safely shut itself down in the case of mains power failure, BWV’s boiler safety checks, soot blower maintenance to clean the boiler drum tubes in the furnace, and an inspection of the steam drum, which holds the water for making steam.
Read MoreProject Update Bulletin 22
/In June, the construction of the facility’s waste processing areas was completed, and initial cold commissioning tests took place to enable the processing of waste when the facility is operational.
Read MoreNews update 30th June 2019
/Today, the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility received its first waste delivery as planned. This is part of the ongoing commissioning phase to get the Facility ready for handover and to become operational later in the summer.
Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility getting ready for the next phase of commissioning and first waste deliveries
/Urbaser Balfour Beatty Gloucestershire has announced that the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste facility is now preparing to enter the next commissioning phase.
This significant construction milestone will commence by the end of May, and is a statutory requirement of all Energy from Waste facilities before it can commence operations. Urbaser Balfour Beatty Gloucestershire will receive its first deliveries of waste from June 30th.
Commissioning is a series of tests undertaken in logical order. The next phase will involve testing of systems, including the drying out of the refractory and steam blowing alongside others. Once these are completed and signed off, the facility will test the full operational system using waste as a fuel.
Each phase of the commissioning process is interdependent, with the preceding test informing the timing of subsequent tests. After analysing data and measuring performance, Urbaser Balfour Beatty Gloucestershire will receive the first deliveries of waste on the 30th June, with all additional deliveries starting within a week of that date.
The tests are not representative of daily operations but will confirm that the equipment is working correctly and safely, and operations are able to commence this summer.
Commenting on this milestone, Craig Kirk, Project Commercial Director, Urbaser Balfour Beatty Gloucestershire said:
“Commissioning is a routine element of construction for power facilities such as the Gloucestershire Energy from Waste facility. It is not a time exact science as there are many elements to it, particularly in a complex engineering build such as this. Each week, we analyse performance and as a result make adjustments to the process and scheduling in order to make the facility ready for operations. It is critically important that we test that all the equipment and processes are working as they should before the facility is operational. As part of this, we are working with the Environment Agency who are monitoring the performance throughout.”
This phase starts with the pre-prep tests involving the drying out of the refractory and steam blowing, leading to the first firing of waste, both of which may emit a noise and a plume of steam which may be noticeable in close proximity to the site.
Commissioning will be complete once the facility has met the conditions and limits as set in the Environmental Permit, having been monitored by the Environment Agency throughout the process. At this point, the facility will be certified and approved for full operational use.
For more information and to read the commissioning FAQs, please visit www.ubbgloucestershire.co.uk/hot-commissioning-faqs
Project Update Bulletin 21
/Construction pressure tests at the facility have now been completed and cold commissioning of the equipment is progressing to schedule. The facility’s distributed control system, which transmits signals to each piece of equipment, has been successfully commissioned and approved as fit for operation, as well as the water treatment facility that supports the heating and cooling systems.
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