Welcome to The Unofficial
International Database of Waste-to-Energy Plants
Waste-to-Energy facilities use waste products as a fuel for the production of usable energy. Most often the waste is incinerated to release the heat which boils water into steam for running turbines and supplying district heating networks, but other technologies and methods exist and are used.
By Technology
• Anaerobic Digestion • Gasification • Landfill Gas • Mass-Burn Incineration • Plasma-Arc Gasification • Pyrolysis • Refuse-Derived Fuel Incineration •
By Primary Fuel
• Agricultural Waste • Biomass • Coal • Construction and Demolition Debris • Electricity • Hazardous Waste • Industrial Waste Stream • Medical Waste • Municipal Solid Waste • Natural Gas • Oil • Propane • Sewage Sludge • Tires •
By Country
• Austria (1) • Canada (1) • Denmark (1) • Germany (1) • Italy (1) • Norway (2) • Sweden (2) • United Kingdom (2) • United States (26) •
By Treatment Capacity
>900 Gg/a • 500 - 900 Gg/a • 300 - 500 Gg/a
• 100 - 300 Gg/a • 50 - 100 Gg/a • <50 Gg/a
(Gg/a = thousand metric tons per annum)
Last Modified: October 19, 2009. 20:07:20 pm
