Dubai/UAE: Landfill WTE option

Much more expensively than Dewa’s solar pricing (see above), Dubai Municipality has announced plans for a Dh2bn ($544.5m) waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Warsan district, which would treat 2m t/d of its solid waste and generate 60MW. Start-up is scheduled for mid-2020. WTE is seen as an essential means of tackling Dubai’s diminishing landfill options. This underlines a problem faced by other UAE authorities, of handling huge quantities of solid waste; the federal government wants landfill to be reduced by 75% by 2021.