Waste Today
Summary
Veolia has assumed operations and maintenance of the Metro Vancouver Waste-to-Energy Facility, located in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The facility processes approximately 25 percent of Metro Vancouver’s waste, producing approximately 180,000 megawatts per year of electricity and recovering about 5,000 metric tons 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 waste to provide heat and hot water to up to 50,000 homes in Vancouver and Burnaby, Veolia says.
The five-year operations and maintenance contract, effective March 3, has two potential five-year extensions in the amount of up to $245 million for operations, maintenance and capital replacement work at the facility.
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