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Veolia strengthens its operations in Canada by signing a strategic contract with Metro Vancouver — a federation of 21 municipalities, one electoral area, and one treaty First Nation totaling over three million residents — to manage the operations and maintenance of its waste-to-energy facility.
The facility processes about one-quarter of Metro Vancouver's waste, producing approximately 180,000 megawatts per year of electricity — enough to power 16,000 homes — and recovering about 5,000 tonnes of recyclable metal per year. Metro Vancouver is also developing a district energy system that will triple the amount of energy the facility can recover by using some of the steam generated through the combustion of garbage to provide heat and hot water to up to 50,000 homes in Vancouver and Burnaby.
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