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Waste to Fuels – A Future Landscape?
3 December 2018
Waste to Fuels – A Future Landscape?

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Ricardo Energy & Environment is a leading sustainability consultancy, helping clients to respond to environmental challenges and opportunities around the world. Our team of over 400 staff has supported many governments, businesses and international organisations for over 40 years. The team draws on this impressive heritage with expertise in air quality, climate change, chemical risk, energy, water, environmental impact, resource efficiency, sustainable transport and waste management. The workshop will examine the UK journey to waste to fuels solutions and how current subsidy mechanisms may be able to provide vital support to technology developers and investors and how these may be legally bound in the future. We will also look at 2 project case studies; achieving end of waste and the key challenges within the project environment that may need to be overcome to achieve delivery of new and developing technologies.
 

Workshop Overview

The workshop will examine the UK journey to waste to fuels solutions and how current subsidy mechanisms may be able to provide vital support to technology developers and investors and how these may be legally bound in the future.
We will also look at 2 project case studies; achieving end of waste and the key challenges within the project environment that may need to be overcome to achieve delivery of new and developing technologies.
 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Elizabeth Lawrenson

Elizabeth Lawrenson

Senior Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

David Woolford

Principal Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
David  Woolford

David has recently conducted due diligence of a UK dRTFC qualifying plant to validate estimated capital and operational costs of building a 100,000 tpa plant and is providing technical and commercial advice to the developer of 250,000 tonne per annum gasification plant that converts biomass into renewable transport fuel.
David brings his experience of supporting waste infrastructure projects, extensive understanding of stakeholders, and good inter-personal skills. His knowledge and experience of due diligence and delivery can be best placed to help both those within the waste sector and also those who may be seeking to enter for the first time.
 

Elizabeth Lawrenson

Senior Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Elizabeth Lawrenson

<p>Elizabeth is a Chemical Engineer with over four years&rsquo; relevant experience. She joined Ricardo Energy &amp; Environment&rsquo;s waste sector due diligence team from Mott MacDonald in January 2018 and brings detailed technical knowledge of a range of waste treatment technologies including combustion, gasification, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis and autoclaving.<br /> Elizabeth is experienced leading technical and environmental due diligence projects on behalf of owners and investors on both buy and sell side both on the design of facilities prior to construction and on potential acquisitions of existing portfolios of facilities. She has worked on due diligence for gasification and other thermal waste treatment technologies as well as for conventional power generation and thermal processes for the recovery of material from the residues produced from traditional metals processing. Common across all due diligence was the need to assess for red flags in designs of/ operation of plants. <br /> In addition to technical engineering, Elizabeth has undertaken project management on a variety of international projects including technical due diligence and has a proven track record of delivering complex projects within tight timescales. Projects have included delivering technical advisory services on a proposed AD plant in Hong Kong, including technical input into tender specification planning and managing the technical review of tender submissions; reviewing tender design documentation for the independent certification of an Integrated Waste Management Facility to be built in Hong Kong, and assessing the efficiency of organic waste treatment options in Singapore.<br /> Elizabeth has experience providing support to investors and the DfT on the Waste to Biofuels projects including leading the technical review of review of a planned 250,000 tonne per annum waste wood to gasoline plant and working as a member of the monitoring team on the Fuels for Freight &amp; Flight Competition (F4C) which is being run by the UK Department for Transport (DfT). The competition will allocate &pound;20m of grant funding to support novel advanced conversion technologies, transforming waste into renewable fuels for heavy good vehicles and aviation; these sectors are seen by Government as harder to decarbonise as electrification is unlikely to be viable. Elizabeth will monitor the delivery of the selected plants through to 2021.<br /> &nbsp;</p>

Nick Churchward

Partner , Burges Salmon LLP
Nick Churchward

Sam Sandilands

Senior Associate, Burges Salmon LLP
Sam Sandilands

Workshop agenda

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13:00

Registration and Coffee

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13:30

Existing subsidies available to those looking to invest or operate in this area;

David Woolford , Principal Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

o which types of technologies are eligible?
o how are subsidies expected to change?
o how will these affect future projects?

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14:00

Legal approach to engaging future renewable transport fuel certificates

Nick Churchward

Nick Churchward, Partner , Burges Salmon LLP

Sam Sandilands

Sam Sandilands, Senior Associate, Burges Salmon LLP

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15:00

Afternoon Tea

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15:30

Current and expected market activity over the next decade;

David Woolford , Principal Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

o how will technology and regulation impact the market?
o what is the expected feedstock availability?
o what are companies to look out for?

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16:00

The Key challenges to overcome to achieve end of waste

Elizabeth Lawrenson, Senior Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

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16:30

Discuss 2 project case studies

David Woolford , Principal Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Elizabeth Lawrenson, Senior Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

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17:00

Questions

David Woolford , Principal Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Nick Churchward

Nick Churchward, Partner , Burges Salmon LLP

Sam Sandilands

Sam Sandilands, Senior Associate, Burges Salmon LLP

Elizabeth Lawrenson, Senior Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

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17:30

Closing Remarks

David Woolford , Principal Consultant, RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT


Principal Consultant
RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Senior Consultant
RICARDO ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Partner
Burges Salmon LLP
Senior Associate
Burges Salmon LLP

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