Welcome to SHREWS Ltd.

SHREWS Ltd is a project development company which identifies the opportunities in a problem and develops businesses based on these, working worldwide but primarily in Scotland, the Baltic States and West Africa.

Our team has a strong environmental and business background and focuses on being a solution driven company in renewable energy, covering Energy from Waste (EfW) and biomass to energy projects.

SHREWS Ltd. works through the project cycle from:

• inception of the idea
• definition of the project
• technology solution
• preparation of the business plan
• planning and permitting
• application for funding
• project implementation
• delivering the project

Opportunities arise everywhere so the company has also been involved in technology companies, business parks, forest industries investments, automated car parking ….  amongst other things.

SHREWS Ltd acts as project developers on their own behalf and work for others, either as direct advisors for an agreed fee or sometimes on a carried interest basis.

If you have a waste stream or a biomass source and want to expand your business into renewable energy, or have a site suitable for an EfW of biomass project, we would like to hear from you.

Equally if you have a solution or a technology that could be an opportunity in markets you are not familiar with, mainly the Baltic States and West Africa, we would like to hear from you.  

To increase the opportunities where heat can be recovered from energy from biomass or waste projects SHREWS Ltd have developed with First London Power Ltd the “Hub and Satellite “ concept. More information on this is available here. (.pdf, 22Kb)

SHREWS Ltd is pleased to be part of a joint venture with First London Group (www.fl-group.co.uk) developing a number of projects in Scotland, Latvia and Russia based on the Advanced Thermal Treatment (ATT) technology developed by Peter Stein.

The first project is at Malpils in Latvia (www.firstmalpilspower.com) which is expected to become operational in December 2008.

BIO-MASS FEASIBILITY STUDY
SHREWS are pleased to announce that they have been awarded the contract from Scottish Enterprise Borders to undertake the BIO-MASS FEASIBILITY STUDY for the Scottish Borders.

Details of the project are available on www.bordersbiomassstudy.com . If you are interested in this study and feel you have a contribution to make please contact john.birchmore@shrews.co.uk with your name and affiliation and an access password will be forwarded to you.

The study will commence at the beginning of January and be completed by mid April.

SPP10 - Response
SHREWS Ltd has submitted a detailed response to the CONSULTATION ON DRAFT SPP10: PLANNING FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT. The response can be read by clicking here.

The Future of Energy in Scotland
For those interested there is to be a one day conference on renewable energy, 14 March 2006, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. More details here

Enterprise & Lifelong Learning
On 10th January John Birchmore and Jamie Carruthers met with Allan Wilson MSP, Deputy minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning  to discuss the role for waste in contributing towards the goals for renewable energy in Scotland and also the need to co-ordinate the policies on waste management, development of SME’s and renewable energy.

National Waste Strategy for Scotland
The National Waste Strategy for Scotland was debated in the Scottish Parliament on 17 November 2005 The specific extract of the afternoon’s proceedings can also be accessed by clicking here. The benefits of Advanced Thermal Treatment were extolled by several speakers.

The company also notes the opening remarks made by Mr Ross Finnie and believes that the strategy being outlined by Mr Finnie is flawed. The particular paragraphs are highlighted in yellow. We will be writing to Mr Finnie on these matters and the letter will be posted here. We regret that no MSP saw fit to challenge Mr Finnie on his strategy which we believe is counter to encouraging local solutions and will preclude the involvement of SME’s. We also challenge the presumption in favour of compost as the preferred route for green waste.