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Eastcroft
reaches 40 year milestone
Pioneer
On 20 September of this year, the Eastcroft
Energy from Waste (EfW) plant on the outs-
kirts of Nottingham City Centre celebrated
its 40 years of generating electricity and heat
from the region’s waste.
Originally developed by a partnership of Not-
tingham City Council and the National Coal
Board, as a response to the energy crisis
of the early 1970s, the plant was the first of
its kind when it opened on 20 September
1973.
From left to right: Paul Wheeldon,
an operator who works the morning
shift; Karl Starkey, Managing Director of
Eastcroft
Forty years later, the Eastcroft EfW facility
continues to generate electricity and heat,
offering Nottingham a reliable source of
energy with low carbon emissions , reducing
dependence on fossil fuels and preventing
the dumping of tons of waste at landfill sites.
Eastcroft EfW produces heat and power by
combusting up to 200,000 tonnes of non-
hazardous waste from the region each year.
It generates nearly 20 megawatts of thermal
energy in the form of steam and hot water
and produces electricity and heat for homes
and businesses in the city. This is used to sa-
tisfy the heating and hot water requirements
of 4,700 homes and over 100 commercial
premises, including the Victoria and Broad-
marsh shopping centres, the National Ice
Centre/Nottingham Arena, Nottingham Trent
University, BioCity, HMRC, and the Royal
Centre.
Eastcroft was a pioneering site and was
among the very first to use the heat ge-
nerated as part of a district heating sys-
tem. To this day it remains one of the
largest district heating systems in the
country and the largest which is was-
te fuelled. The plant has gone through
changes to ensure it can still operate
and comply with today’s strict controls
on emissions. It is now the equal of the
most modern EfW plants in Europe.
This is how
.A.S.A.’s
waste management
plants function
.A.S.A. presents a new animation, which joins the family of 3 already
existing ones:
•
Visit an .A.S.A. Collection Yard
•
Explore a Waste-to-energy plant from inside
•
Discover a Landfill by a click only
All animations are available at www.asa-group.com, in the relevant sec-
tions.
The animations can be easily downloaded at .A.S.A. Point as a swf or
a PDF file.
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