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Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

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26/5/2026 News

Poo power progress: projects turn sewage into energy

Two deals have advanced the prospects of using human waste for energy projects.

Landfill gas

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8/5/2024 News

BP’s Archaea Energy brings new landfill gas plant online

BP’s Archaea Energy has announced the start-up of its largest Archaea Modular Design (AMD) renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Kansas, US.

Heat

4/3/2026 News

Veolia accelerates UK district heating push with £1bn project pipeline as ADE analysis signals up to £161bn savings by 2050

Waste management firm Veolia’s expanding UK district heating programme, consisting of a £1bn project pipeline to 2030, coincides with new ADE modelling that suggests widespread deployment of district heating could deliver billions in annual energy system savings.

Anaerobic digestion

14/1/2026 Comment / Jake Harrison

Food waste: an unrealised renewable energy opportunity

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is already powering homes and businesses across the country. But its full potential to advance the renewable energy transition and cut emissions is massively underutilised, writes Jake Harrison, Chief Technical Officer at anaerobic digestion firm Bio Capital.

Carbon capture and storage

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1/10/2025 News

UK backs first EfW carbon capture project while new study highlights the sector’s net-negative potential

The UK’s first full-scale carbon capture project for energy-from-waste (EfW) is set to go ahead, with waste management firm Encyclis and the government signing an agreement to develop the Protos carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility in Cheshire. The announcement comes as a new report finds the UK EfW sector could go carbon negative by 2035 if CCS is deployed rapidly.

Aviation fuel

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25/3/2026 Comment / Andrew Symes

The case for waste carbon fuels for the future of aviation

Human society is facing significant challenges. The challenge we are solving is ensuring that future generations have access to carbon-based aviation fuels with far lower impact on the Earth’s climate. Aviation is not going away. The question is not whether people will continue to fly, but how we enable flight without placing a huge burden on future generations by leaving them with an increasingly large cost to live comfortably. The solution is to use fuels derived from waste carbon, either biomass waste or CO₂, writes Andrew Symes, Founder and CEO of low-carbon fuel spin-out OXCCU.

Energy from waste

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24/7/2024 Comment / Andy Jones

Waste not want not – how Europe could better treat its refuse

Waste-derived fuel (WDF) can play an important part in the European Union’s (EU) transition towards a circular economy and an energy-secure, net-zero society – particularly if an integrated tax regime for waste was in place, writes Andy Jones, Managing Director at Totus Environmental and Chair of the RDF Industry Group.

COP

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16/11/2022 News

A wealth of announcements and deals at COP27

A plethora of announcements have been made since the ongoing COP27 Climate Summit opened on 6 November, including a new carbon trading scheme unveiled by the US government’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.

Environment, social and governance (ESG)

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13/12/2023 Comment / Edita Adamcikova

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Edita Adamcikova CEng MEI

The Energy Institute brings together people working across the entire energy sector. In December’s Energy People article, we hear how being Chartered and MEI helped Edita Adamcikova, ESG Director at Viridor, in her career and what she is working on to reduce Viridor’s emissions and convert waste into heat.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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EI Member only

11/10/2023 Feature / Bob Laslett,Toby Williams

Competing in the net zero race

In the race to net zero, the oil and gas sector has a significant role to play using its extensive experience for the transition to renewable power. Bob Laslett and Toby Williams of project engineering and consultancy firm Laslett International put the picture in focus.

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