The Lakeside EfW is located in
Colnbrook,
Slough
Slough () is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. It is part of the historic county of Buckinghamshire. In 2021, the ...
. It incinerates residual waste, and since 2010 it has also been authorised to incinerate
low-level radioactive waste.
Ownership
The Lakeside EfW is run by Lakeside Energy from Waste Ltd, which is a joint venture between
Grundon Waste Management and
Viridor. 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 capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, is a substantive title that has been created four times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not pr ...
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 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