To much fanfare, Dublin City Council launched the planning process on September 9 to pipe heated water from the Poolbeg waste incinerator to buildings across the Docklands. Less than two months earlier, the European Commission had made this a condition to escape costly charges under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Energy recovery for district heating has been a promise of the incinerator since it was first proposed over two decades ago. As Europe works through reform of the ETS, information obtained by The Currency shows lobbying efforts by local authorities across the EU, including Dublin City Council, to resist…

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