The Lakeside EfW is located in
Colnbrook
Colnbrook is a village in the Slough district in Berkshire, England. It lies within the historic boundaries of Buckinghamshire, and straddles two distributaries of the Colne, the Colne Brook and Wraysbury River. These two streams have their conf ...
,
Slough
Slough () is a town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4 ...
, and is the largest facility of its kind in
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. It incinerates residual waste, and since 2010 it has also been authorised to incinerate
low-level radioactive waste
Low-level waste (LLW) or Low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) is nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for intermediate-level waste (ILW), high-level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or cer ...
.
Ownership
The Lakeside EfW is run by Lakeside Energy from Waste Ltd, which is a joint venture between
Grundon Waste Management and
Viridor
Viridor Ltd (from the Latin 'to become green') is a recycling, renewable energy and waste management company in the United Kingdom, owned by KKR (previously owned by Pennon Group).
History
The company was formed in 1956 as Harrison Western Ltd ...
. The
energy-from-waste facility was established at a cost of £160 million and was officially opened by the
Duke of Edinburgh
Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, was a substantive title that has been created three times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not produc ...
on 27 October 2010.
Capacity
It is capable of processing 410,000 tonnes of residual waste annually and generating 37MW of electricity, enough to power the borough of Slough.
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Possible relocation
In 2014, expansion plans for London's Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others be ...
suggested that the super incinerator would need to be relocated to make way for a new runway.
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.lakesideefw.co.uk/
Waste power stations in England