South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. has won an EPC contract to build a waste-to-energy plant in Poland with a contract value of approximately 220 billion won (US$185.5 million). According to the contract, Doosan Heavy Industries and its German subsidiary Doosan Lentjes will build a waste-to-energy plant in Olsztyn, about 200 kilometers north of Warsaw. The customer is Dobra Energia, a Polish energy company.

The new waste-to-energy plant will be equipped with equipment to convert combustible waste resources generated by industrial sites or households into energy through the process of gasification, incineration or pyrolysis. The power plant will have the capacity to process approximately 300 tons of municipal waste per day, generating approximately 12 megawatts of heat and power supply.

Doosan Heavy Industries will be responsible for providing comprehensive project management services, while Doosan Lentjes will provide incineration boilers and environmental protection equipment.

Hong Hongpu, CEO of Doosan Heavy Power Service, said: “Although the business environment is facing challenges due to the new crown epidemic, we were able to win the project due to our strong global EPC business. It is based on a strong cooperation between us and The power of our European subsidiaries Doosan Lentjes and Doosan Skoda. We plan to actively target the European waste-to-energy plant market, which is expected to grow to 1.6GW by 2024."

The construction of the project is scheduled to be completed in 2023. Doosan said that because the waste landfill restriction policy was implemented due to increased demand for replacement of old power plants, new orders for waste-to-energy plants in Europe have particularly increased. Editor/Huang Lijun