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Riverside Resource Recovery (RRR)
Energy from Waste Facility

The Riverside Energy from Waste facility at Belvedere in the London Borough of Bexley, is Cory Environmental's single most significant development project. With an average annual capacity of 585,000 tonnes, it will be an important strategic river-served waste management facility for London, helping the capital to manage its own waste, keeping over 100,000 HGVs off the capital's congested roads each year and making a real contribution to London's ability to meet its landfill diversion targets.

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September 2011 - Riverside Update.

Construction of the Riverside Resource Recovery (RRR) Energy from Waste facility is now complete and hot commissioning is well advanced.

Hot commissioning has been underway since February 2011 and is due to finish later this year. This has been proving the plant’s waste combustion ability and following this Riverside will commence a sustained period of reliability, performance and availability trials. These will fully test all of the plant’s systems to demonstrate that it is capable of sustained operation at the design capacity and meets the intended operating performance, ready for full operation in 2012.

The commissioning process has so far shown that all three processing lines are running well and has proven the total plant capacity. It is processing waste from across London, delivered by both river and road. The turbine has been synchronised to the national grid and the plant is exporting electricity.

Over 60 Cory Environmental staff are now working on-site alongside operations support managers from Hitachi Zosen Inova and Wheelabrator Technologies Inc.

Cory’s river operations are a key aspect of the process for Riverside, with over 85% of the waste being brought to the plant on barges along the River Thames. The Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) produced by Riverside is also taken away on the river to a new IBA processing facility developed at Tilbury Docks.

Cory Environmental Trust in Britain (CETB)

CETB funds community projects in the Bexley area. Further information about this and examples of projects supported are in the "Projects around Bexley" leaflet - click here

Riverside Community Forum

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