Kanadevia Inova’s twin milestones signal a maturing sector

Two major projects, one in the agricultural heartland of Minnesota and one replacing a 40-year-old facility on the banks of the Aare in Switzerland, are together offering a picture of where Kanadevia Inova is taking its waste-to-energy business. The Swiss project is the older story, at least in terms of the relationship it represents. Kanadevia Inova's partnership with kenova AG began in 1976, making it one of the longer continuous collaborations in European waste management. The company has now received the Provisional Acceptance Certificate from kenova AG for its combustion and boiler system at the new KEBAG Enova Emmenspitz plant in Zuchwil, Canton Solothurn. It constitutes a state-of-the-art replacement for the existing Emmenspitz facility, which has been processing waste for over four decades. The scale of the new plant reflects how much the sector's expectations have shifted in that time. The KEBAG Enova facility will process approximately 220,000 tonnes of source-separated municipal and commercial waste annually, converting it into electricity,...