A ribbon cutting was held in late March to mark the official opening of a new waste-to-energy (wte) plant in Gdańsk, Poland. The Port of Clean Energy (Gdańsk ITPOK) is now fully operational, project developers announced on 24 March. The facility was handed over to the municipal company Port Czystej Energii which oversaw the plant's construction in February, following several months of testing which began in July 2024.
The city of Gdańsk awarded a contract for the design, construction and operation of the facility in 2018 to a consortium then consisting of Tiru, Italian construction concern Astaldi, and the environmental technology concern Termomeccanica Ecologia (TME). The contract had originally been awarded to German waste to energy plant operator EEW in 2017, but was voided by the public procurement office.
Construction of the facility began in 2021, with completion initially expected in 2023. Tiru subsequently became Dalkia Wastenergy, and was then later acquired by Paprec and integrated into Paprec Energies, which will now be the plant's operator. Astaldi was taken over by Webuild.
Built at a total cost of PLN663m, the equivalent of around €144m, the facility is to process 160,000 tonnes of municipal waste per year, serving the city's 300,000 residents and those in its nearly 40 partner municipalities across the Pomeranian Voivodeship, according to the European Commission.
The project received over €62m in co-financing from the European Union’s Cohesion Fund. Further co-financing came in the form of a loan granted by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW). The commercial bank PKO Bank Polski S.A. provided an additional loan covering the financing costs.
