Dorothee Palla

Swiss engineering company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is part of the consortium selected to deliver a new waste to energy (wte) plant for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, according to a recent announcement. The facility, which is to have a processing capacity of 900,000 tonnes of waste per year, is to be built on behalf of the...

Zurich-based Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI) has acquired a 51 per cent stake in the Italian firm Schmack Biogas S.r.l. from the Italian energy firm PLC S.p.A. With this investment in a "leading player in the Italian biogas and biomethane industry,” HZI says it is "extending its European biogas and biomethane plant...

Swiss waste to energy technology supplier Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is part of a consortium that is to retrofit a facility in Padua, Italy. The Termovalorizzatore di Padova was initially a two-line plant when it first went online in 1962. The energy from waste (EfW) facility now includes a third line which was...

A combined heat and power (CHP) plant that combusts refuse-derived fuel (RDF) is slated to start up this year in Krosno, Poland. The City of Krosno announced that the drum, the most important element of the steam boiler, is currently being installed. The plant is expected to produce electricity and heat from...

Right now, there are more than 2,700 thermal waste treatment plants with a combined capacity of around 530 million tonnes per year in operation worldwide, according to Ecoprog. The 16th edition of the consultancy's "Waste-to-Energy" report projects that by 2032 more than 3,000 plants with a capacity of more than 700...

Sufficient waste volumes are currently available on the market and German waste-to-energy (wte) plants do not appear to be concerned about shortfalls this winter. There were only very rare gaps in supply, so there are a few spot-market offers to treat commercial waste for €80 per tonne. Overall, however, the gate fees...

Last week, the European Council approved two further pieces of legislation belonging to the EU’s "Fit for 55" package. In their meeting last week, the Environment Council adopted the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) and a regulation on the ReFuelEU Aviation initiative, both of had already been formally...

Even though arisings of commercial and municipal waste are contracting in Germany due to the country’s sputtering economy, various demand-side factors are creating increased volume pressure on the waste incineration market. Gate fees prices charged by waste to energy (wte) plants are therefore heading higher, EUWID...

Earlier this week, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum attended the ceremonial opening of the first phase of a major waste-to-energy plant in the "Al Warsan" area of Dubai. When the plant is completed next year, it is to have a capacity of 2 million tonnes per year or around 45 per cent of the locally generated...

Veolia has backed out of a partnership planning to build a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power station in Jänschwalde, near the city of Cottbus in eastern Germany. The partnership with Veolia had been terminated by mutual agreement, power plant operator LEAG announced last week. The company said the decision had come about...