ENERGY FROM WASTE : the contribution from the European cement industry Baudouin NIZET

2 Energy from waste : the contribution from the European cement industry EU objectives :  Reduce emissions of CO 2  Increase energy self sufficiency / reduce imports of fossil fuels Current status :  Priority for RES Electricity  No objective / incentives for other thermal process with significant saving potentials

3 Energy from waste : the case of the EU cement industry  Thermal substitution rate : 11 %  Yearly fossil fuel savings: 3.15 Mio T coal  CO 2 saving: 7.4 Mio T CO 2 + highly efficient energy recovery

4 Energy from waste : critical issues 1. CO 2 :  No incentives to use biogenic wastes in cement kilns (vs green certificates for power plants/incinerators)  CO 2 exemption foreseen for incinerators in CO 2 directive  Need to get CO 2 exemption for waste recovered in co-combustion process (power plants, cement and lime kilns,…)

5 Energy from waste : critical issues 2. Standardization of alternative fuels ? YES ! …but according to process specificities

6 Energy from waste : critical issues 3. Improvement of EU legal framework for transborder shipment :  We need one single market for alternative fuels for recovery  one single definition for recovery vs disposal  not Member state criterias ranging from 6 to 30 MJ/kg  We favour an EU definition of energy performance criteria