Covanta Holding Corporation just announced that it has finished acquiring a 3,000 ton per day energy-from-waste operating contract in Miami-Dade County, FL. This is the final stage of Covanta’s acquisition of Veolia’s North American energy-from-waste business, which was announced previously.

Including the Miami-Date contract, Covanta acquired 6 EfW long-term operating contracts plus an EfW facility and transfer station in Pennsylvania. Covanta paid $450 million for the businesses and they are expected to contribute $60 million … Read the rest

Covanta just announced that it has started production on a energy-from-waste facility located in Dublin, Ireland. The facility, which is being built as a Public Private Partnership between Dublin City Council and Dublin Waste to Energy Limited (owned by Covanta), will have the capacity to process 600,000 tons of waste per year, creating enough energy to power 60,000 homes.

The estimated time to complete the facility is 3 three years. Covanta subsidiaries are responsible for … Read the rest