The final testing stage of the Energy Recovery Facility on Forest Road is set to be completed this Autumn, it is claimed.
Work to build the gasification plant on the outskirts of Newport began back in 2017, but 6 years later it has not yet been fully signed off.
The plant was originally due to start full-scale operations in May 2019, but this date was pushed back to January 2022 due to the pandemic and a number of other reasons. The completion of all relevant testing was then pushed back once again to July 2022.
Now, more than a year later, the handover has still not been completed.
It is hoped by officials that the final stage of testing will conclude in the Autumn. A 30-day continuous test of the plant is required to pass and receive an ‘Acceptance Test Certificate’. However, even once accepted by the Council, a number of performance tests will be carried out to ensure performance is maintained.
The site is now run by Thalia Waste Management, who took over from Amey in 2022.
A spokesperson for the Isle of Wight Council has said:
“The Energy Recovery Facility has been mechanically completed and is currently operational and undergoing performance and availability testing, as part of its acceptance process. This final testing stage is hoped to be completed this coming Autumn.
“The ERF is operated by Thalia Waste Management on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council and is part of a wider service enabling the council to meet its target of recycling more than 55% and diverting from landfill more than 90% of the council’s waste while generating renewable electricity for up to 5000 homes.”
It’ll take about 300 years to recover the energy it took to build the facility. It’s like all these gimmicks which purport to be ‘sustainable’ and ‘renew’ energy.. They might well be socially positive in that piles of waste do not litter the countryside but saving energy they do not. They cost energy, a price that cleaning up the cityscapes and countryside might well be worth paying.
You could nearly rate this alongside the Floating Bridge as another Isle of Wight Council Failure.
Look at everything that no longer works properly, is cripplingly expensive, inefficient, unreliable and often just plain useless and behind it you will always find the new Marxist progressive religion of ‘climate change and net zero’
You have literally no clue what you are talking about.
He said progressive, that to me indicates that he has an understanding that things are moving with or without his bony bottom lol
As lead engineer in combustible recycling I have for many years watched the process and also been involved with the Forest Road plant..even today I can say the plant in no way conforms to regulations from 20 years ago let alone meet current regulations to today’s standards…I offered my engineering expertise 18 years ago to which I have never received any response. I can tell you all…the plant does not even meet basic requirements…
Why on earth was the facility not painted forest green to blend in?
More climate b@llocks
Tell me you are a boomer with room temp IQ, without telling me you are a boomer with room temp IQ.
Just for a start..given the close proximity to the hospital and populated community as in Newport…the minimum requirement for chimney for comercial incinerator is 72 – 120 metres high with secondary burners to insure outlet gasses (highly poisonous) are above 1200°c. Forest Road does not even meet basic requirements…
Are you suggesting that the gases coming out of the stack are required to be over 1200 degrees Celsius?