Covanta Energy’s Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Rookery South Pit, a former brick clay extraction pit, is being developed near Stewartby in Bedfordshire.
The ERF is a sustainable alternative to landfill, using household, commercial and non-hazardous industrial residual waste, left after recycling and composting efforts, as fuel to generate clean electricity. The facility will provide a vital outlet for the sustainable disposal of over 500,000 tonnes of residual waste per year and will generate over 60 megawatts of low carbon energy – enough electricity to meet the needs of 75,000 homes. To find out more about the project development itself, please click here
The Rookery South Community Energy Initiative (RSCEI) is a 35 year financial commitment by Covanta to specified householders, subject to their current and future eligibility, starting at commercial operation of the ERF (expected in early 2022).
Covanta is unable to supply electricity directly to neighbouring communities; however, Covanta has committed to contribute £60 per household, per year, through the RSCEI towards the electricity costs of households in qualifying parishes, payable from the first year of operation, and index linked for the following years.
Covanta has appointed GrantScape Services Ltd to manage the Community Energy Initiative on its behalf. Residents of households (as at 31 December 2018) in the parishes of Brogborough, Cranfield, Houghton Conquest, Lidlington, Marston Moretaine, Millbrook, Stewartby and Wootton will be invited to register for the RSCEI.
Registration Forms will be posted to eligible households by the end of February 2019 and will be available online. Registration Forms must be submitted by 28 June 2019.
To find out more go to
http://www.grantscape.org.uk/fund/rscei/rscei-frequently-asked-questions/