About the REA Energy from Waste Forum

Forum members represent a diverse range of technologies and organisation types spanning owner/operators, developers, financiers, service providers, and academics.

The REA have long promoted the energy from waste sector, having been involved in the original design of the Renewable Obligation and Contracts for Difference support mechanism. We have also been influential in the development and implementation of the Governments Waste and Resource Strategy, highlighting the interactions between sanitation services and energy policy.

In addition, the REA have supported innovative technologies in the waste to energy sector, with dedicated working groups focused on gasification and pyrolysis.

The Waste to Energy Forum also works closely with other forums in the REA, including our Organics Recycling Forum, Biomass Power Forum, Hydrogen Working Group and Renewable Transport Fuel Forum.

Key workstreams include:

• Carbon capture, utilisation and storage opportunities for waste to energy, including char and biochar
• Planning for the incoming inclusion of waste in the UK ETS
• Changes to composition of waste
• Sectoral innovation areas including use of waste feedstocks, hydrogen, and sustainable transport fuel production
• Heat networks
• Industrial decarbonisation
• Responding to consultations and shaping regulatory reform by Government and the Environment Agency
• Optimising business opportunities for members by networking between them, with Government and other trade associations.

Please contact James Heath at [email protected] with any further questions or comments.