The Spittelau Waste-to-Energy plant | Landmark of Vienna, Austria

The Spittelau Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant is a piece of art that processes around 250,000 tonnes of household waste every year to produce green heating and electricity.
The WtE plant makes a key contribution to Vienna’s waste management system. Around 50 percent of the energy produced every year from WtE comes from biogenic or renewable sources. The environmentally-friendly heating produced at Spittelau is enough to heat more than 60,000 households in Vienna in a year. 50,000 households can be supplied with electricity every year.
In Austria it is forbidden to simply dump untreated waste. Thermal waste treatment plays an important role today. Pollutants are destroyed with a high degree of efficiency and the volume to be dumped is lowered. The combustion process is monitored and advanced flue-gas cleaning technology prevents any harm from being done to the environment. The Spittelau is 90 percent below the legal thresholds set for WtE plants on a yearly average. This is one of the best performances anywhere in the world.
Key figures:
250.000 tonnes of household waste are processed yearly.
60 GWh of electricity are produced every year.
500 GWh of green heat are produced every year