Veolia Near & Middle East, BEEAH Group, UAE and Masdar, UAE have formed a joint venture to operate and maintain the Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant, the region’s first of its kind at commercial-scale.
The facility, owned by BEEAH Group and Masdar through their joint venture, Emirates Waste to Energy, can process 300,000 tonnes of municipal waste every year while producing 30 megawatts (MW) of low carbon energy, enough to power up to 28,000 homes and offset up to 450,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
Sharjah currently has a 76% landfill waste diversion rate. With the plant now operational, it will enable 100% landfill waste diversion, making Sharjah the first zero waste to landfill city in the Middle East. As a full-circle, zero-waste solution, the facility, which recently won the NES Fircroft Power Project of the Year at the MEED Project Awards 2022, is shaping a clean energy future in Sharjah while contributing to the UAE’s sustainability agenda.
The Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant complements BEEAH Group’s efforts at its integrated waste management complex, managed and operated by BEEAH Recycling, the Group’s waste processing and material recovery business. With ten specialised facilities, the waste management complex recovers a majority of the recyclable material from the waste it processes. The remaining waste will then be sent to the plant, where it will be thermally treated. The heat produced from the process will be applied to a boiler, which will produce steam and drive a turbine to produce electricity.
The joint venture between Veolia Near & Middle East, Masdar, and BEEAH Group will operate and maintain the facility for a period of 25 years.
The joint venture will also draw from its collective experience and insights to help operate and maintain waste to energy projects across the UAE and the region.
