Veolia to triple energy recovery from waste at Vancouver facility
The newly planned waste-to-energy system can provide heat and hot water to up to 50,000 homes
Veolia strengthens its operations in Canada by signing a strategic contract with Metro Vancouver — a federation of 21 municipalities, one electoral area, and one treaty First Nation totaling over three million residents — to manage the operations and maintenance of its waste-to-energy facility.
The facility processes about one-quarter of Metro Vancouver's waste, producing approximately 180,000 megawatts per year of electricity — enough to power 16,000 homes — and recovering about 5,000 tonnes of recyclable metal per year. Metro Vancouver is also developing a district energy system that will triple the amount of energy the facility can recover by using some of the steam generated through the combustion of garbage to provide heat and hot water to up to 50,000 homes in Vancouver and Burnaby.
Veolia Canada boosts energy in Metro Vancouver
The operations and maintenance contract between Veolia and Metro Vancouver is scheduled for five years with two potential five-year extensions for up to $245 million for operations, maintenance, and capital replacement work at the waste-to-energy facility beginning in early March 2025.
"We are very proud to continue to work with Metro Vancouver to provide this safe, reliable, and essential waste management service to the region," declared Denis Chesseron, country director and CEO of Veolia Canada
"As a global leader in ecological transformation, we don't just want to provide a high-quality service, we want to establish increasingly efficient models based on our combined expertise. Veolia is currently present in 44 countries around the world and our goal is to capitalize on our experience to lead ambitious and high-performance projects. This is what we are doing here in Burnaby, in line with our GreenUp strategic program in which local low-carbon energy production is a growth booster: we are using our expertise to help develop a system that will triple the amount of energy recovered by the facility to provide heat and hot water to the local network."
