Highest annual capacity for a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) conversion plant

According to the D-Waste Association, the WtE plant with the highest annual capacity is the AEB Afval Energie Bedrijf in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which can process up to 1,397,000 tonnes of waste per year. The first waste incinerator on this site came into service in 1919, but the present WtE plant became operational in 1993, with a major overhaul in 2007 drastically increasing both capacity and efficiency.

The plant processes waste from both the Netherlands and other countries; it provides electricity to about 320,000 households. It can also produce 660,000 gigajoules of thermal energy, providing hot water and heating to many homes in Amsterdam.

The current largest WtE plant in Asia is the Lujiashan MSW incineration plant in Beijing, China, with a daily processing rate of 3,000 tonnes (1.1 million tonnes per annum). Another WtE facility that is being built by Babcock and Wilcox Volund in Shenzhen, China - scheduled to be completed by 2021 - has a proposed daily processing capacity of 5,000 tonnes (1.8 million tonnes per annum).