For the past few years, the Councils have been working in partnership to find a sustainable long-term solution for treating our region’s residual waste – which is the waste left over after recycling. In addition to pursuing ever-higher recycling and waste reduction targets, treating the remaining residual waste (circa 450,000 tonnes a year produced by 1.5 million people living and working across the region) will be achieved through the procurement of a new Energy-from-Waste (“EfW”) facility known as the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (“TV ERF”).

The TV ERF project partners submitted an application to BEIS for “business model support” to help fund the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology at the TV ERF.

The TV ERF is an Industrial Carbon Capture (ICC) project within the East Coast Cluster (ECC) and this application was made under Phase Two of the Cluster Sequencing Process in January 2022.

The project was subsequently shortlisted by BEIS in August 2022 to progress to due diligence ahead of any funding award announcement.

The Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TV ERF) project has taken a significant step closer to being able to provide a zero-carbon waste management solution to more than one-and-a-half million people living across the North-East, after being invited to participate in the next stage of a process to grant Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) funding support for industrial carbon capture (ICC) projects.

The seven partner authorities involved in the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TV ERF) project, which could provide a sustainable and zero-carbon waste treatment solution for more than one and a half million people living and working across the North-East, have launched a new website for the project today.

Publication of the website also comes just ahead of an expected critical announcement on Government funding support for industrial carbon capture projects within the East Coast Cluster (ECC)