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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

UK pension fund loses more than £350m with waste incinerator power plants

Household waste being burned at 1,000C inside an incinerator
Critics of incinerators say that generating energy from burning waste contributes to greenhouse gas emissions compared with renewable power. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

One of the UK’s biggest pension funds has lost more than £350m on a series of “calamitous” investments in incinerator power plants that are expected to go bust in the coming days.

The Guardian understands that Aviva Investors will put three incinerators into administration this week after pouring millions of pounds into what has been described as the country’s “dirtiest form of power generation”.

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