February 14 (SeeNews) - Serbian company Beo Cista Energija (BCE) said it started producing electricity and heat at its energy-from-waste plant near Belgrade, the first of its kind in Serbia and the Balkan region.
After successfully completing cold commissioning activities, BCE ignited the first fire with waste on February 8, according to a video file published on the company’s website last week.
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The facility will be able to process 340,000 tonnes of waste per year. It has a generating capacity of up to 30 MW of electricity and 57 MW of heat. BCE will supply 5% of Belgrade households with electricity and 10% of households with heat in winter generated from waste at the plant.
Beo Cista Energija is a special purpose vehicle formed by French utility company Suez, Japanese conglomerate Itochu and pan-European equity fund Marguerite Fund, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).
The companies entered a 25-year public-private partnership (PPP) with the city of Belgrade in 2017 for the construction of an energy-from-waste facility, a facility for construction and demolition waste (CDW), the remediation, closing and aftercare of the existing Vinca landfill and the construction of a new EU-compliant landfill, an investment worth 300 million euro ($323 million).
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