ABSTRACT
The past eight years have seen an accelerating rate of change in the UK waste management sector. The quantity of biomass feedstocks needed to support the UKs renewable energy ambition is likely to focus attention on feedstock supply from sources other than municipal waste, notably commercial and industrial (C&I) sources and the waste wood component from the construction and demolition (C&D) sector. The arrival of the UK Governments Green Investment Bank is significant as two of the three initial priority sectors it will address are waste and non-domestic energy efficiency. It is against such good quality anchor heat loads that energy service companies (ESCOs) will deploy capital to build skeleton heat distribution networks onto which private sector commercial and residential users can connect over time. The speed of response was impressive as it took little more than a couple of months to assemble a multi-disciplinary group with experience in consultancy, banking, industry, waste technology, local government and third sector activity.
