At the beginning of February 2010, E.ON Energy from Waste Delfzijl B.V. lit the first waste fire in the new plant in the industrial park Oosterhorn von Delfzijl, and by doing so started the commissioning phase after a construction period of 24 months. The plant was constructed in conformity with regulations according to European directives and Dutch building standards.

In the last weeks work had intensified in the cleaning and the „blowing out“of all pipelines and plant sections. After final tests, for the first time waste could be piled up on the incineration grate, ignited and incinerated. Following com-pletion of the necessary test operation, the energy generated through the waste incineration is intended to supply the local industrial park with power.

„We are now very happy to have ignited the first waste fire“, declared Horst Bieber, CEO of

E.ON Energy from Waste Delfzijl B.V. „This plant offers our in-dustrial partners a security of supply with environmentally friendly energy, such as for example process steam.“

Generation of power and process steam

In the two incineration lines of the plant maximal 275,000 tons of waste per year can be thermally processed and up to 140 tons of steam generated per hour. With the building of the plant about 50 new jobs were created in the power station.

Energy from waste is environmental protection

E.ON Energy from Waste generates environmentally friendly electricity, district heating and process steam through the combustion of substitute fuel and waste. Developed for this purpose,

E.ON Energy from Waste builds and oper-ates incineration plants to a high technical and ecological standard. During the combustion the modern plants withdraw almost all pollutants from the environment and thus make a significant contribution to the protection of the environment and the climate. Due to the high biogenic percentage of the substitute fuels, the generation of the energy is predominantly CO2-neutral.