Dorothee Palla

One of Italy’s largest waste infrastructure projects has entered the construction phase, with work now under way on a new waste-to-energy (wte) plant near Rome. Swiss plant engineering company Kanadevia Inova said that work commenced on 14 May. The first waste deliveries are scheduled for autumn 2029. The City of Rome...

Norwegian waste and raw materials trader Geminor has appointed Ralf Schöpwinkel as its Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), the company announced in April. He succeeds founder Kjetil Vikingstad, who will move into a strategic ownership role while continuing to support Geminor in an advisory capacity on a project basis, the...

EEW Energy from Waste achieved slightly higher waste throughput in 2025, building on the high capacity utilisation levels of the previous year. However, sales growth for Germany's largest operator of waste-to-energy (wte) plants was significantly slower than in 2024. According to the annual report published by EEW’s...

The global fleet of waste incineration plants with energy recovery continues to expand. While a sluggish Chinese waste to energy (wte) market is putting pressure on domestic plant engineering companies, activity is picking up in central and south-east Asia. In Europe, the focus is gradually shifting to modernisation...

Indaver plans to build a waste to energy (wte) plant in England. According to a statement issued on 26 February, the Belgian waste management company has entered an agreement with project developer Low Carbon Ltd. under which it secured exclusive rights to acquire the Medway Energy Centre project. The future wte plant,...

Sako Brno, the municipal waste management services provider in the Czech Republic's second largest city, is pushing ahead with a major expansion of its waste to energy plant.  The project will involve a modernisation of the facility centring on the construction of a third incineration line. According to the company,...

The market for thermal waste treatment in dedicated waste-to-energy (wte) plants in Germany has undergone a marked change late in 2025. Across the board, market participants told EUWID in early to mid-December that they had seen a market reversal within the previous two to five weeks. Volatility had increased...

The German utility company MVV has finalised financing for the construction of its Medworth waste to energy (wte) plant located near Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. The company, which already operates two wte plants and a biomass power plant in the UK, says the Medworth project will be the largest single investment in its...

Europe’s waste-to-energy (wte) plants continue to have high levels of capacity utilisation even though waste volumes remain relatively low due to the continent’s weak economic activity. Nearly half of the companies surveyed for the "Industry Barometer Waste-to-Energy 2025" reported high capacity utilisation, while 45...

Environmental services group Veolia has launched two feasibility studies on CO2 capture at its waste wood combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Braunschweig, Germany operated by its joint venture BS Energy. According to Veolia, the studies aim to identify which technology is best suited for capturing biogenic carbon...