Urbaser Balfour Beatty was chosen by the county council to build the incinerator, which would have the capacity to burn up to 190, 000 tonnes of waste per year.
Generally, the participants at the FERC hearings all expressed a preference for better sharing of information concerning pipeline capacity scheduled for power generation, individual power plant burn rates, fast notification of major operational changes, and coordination of maintenance work to both systems.
Second, nuclear reactors can only be run above maximum capacity for a short period before they begin experiencing complications, so each region maintains backup facilities to burn fuel oil or natural gas at peak periods or for when the nuclear reactors are offline.