Leading UK waste and recycling company Cory Group (Cory) has further strengthened its relationship with Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI) by awarding the Swiss-Japanese green-tech company with the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract to build its second large-scale energy from waste (EfW) plant at Belvedere in the London Borough of Bexley.
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Following the Financial Close of the new Riverside 2 Energy from Waste (EfW) facility, Cory has once again appointed HZI to build a second energy recovery plant at its Belvedere site on the banks of the River Thames in East London.
The site is adjacent to Cory’s existing facility, which was also built by HZI and has been operational since 2011. For HZI, this new project represents its eighteenth EfW project in the UK to date.
HZI is delighted to have been awarded our second EPC contract with Cory to build the Riverside 2 facility. We thank the Cory leadership team for again choosing HZI to build the second facility, and for the great cooperation in developing the project. The location of this new plant is significant for HZI as it will be adjacent to the first Riverside facility, which has now been safely and successfully operating for over a decade, said Fabio Dinale, VP of Business Development at HZI.
Construction will start in early January 2023, with the construction phase set to last nearly four years.
The Riverside 2 facility was originally granted planning permission by a Development Consent Order in April 2020 and the plant’s owners have also secured an Environmental Permit to operate the plant ahead of commercial operations which are set to start in 2026.
I am delighted to be partnering with HZI once again to deliver this world-class facility. We are making a significant investment to ensure that we process non-recyclable waste to the highest standards at a site that is enabled for carbon capture and hydrogen production. This facility is being built to deliver a world-class service for the communities, businesses, and local authorities that really care about the environment, said Dougie Sutherland, CEO of Cory.
Once the new Riverside facility is operational, it will be able to treat approximately 650 000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste while generating around 61 MWe of electricity (net) – enough domestically-produced energy to power over 140 000 average UK households each year.
The new Riverside 2 facility will provide London and South East England with urgently needed EfW capacity, diverting residual waste away from being landfilled and helping to generate more reliable baseload energy in the UK, Fabio Dinale said.
Proprietary state-of-the-art technologies
The new infrastructure project will be built on land to the east of the existing Riverside 1 facility on the banks of the River Thames in the London Borough of Bexley.
The new plant will be equipped with HZI’s own technologies such as HZI’s well-established reciprocating grate, which has successfully been deployed across numerous operational EfW facilities in the UK, including the iconic Riverside 1 facility, and state-of-the-art boiler.
Once operational in 2026, the two-line plant will generate electricity through a steam turbine which will meet strict emission directive requirements and satisfy the high demands placed on modern EfW facilities.
We are always looking for ways to mitigate our environmental impact. Riverside 2 will have the UK’s lowest NOx levels, will take refuse vehicles off our roads by transporting waste via the River Thames, and will be connected to one of the UK’s largest heat networks, ended Dougie Sutherland.
