No waste tourism for Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden

The work

The new waste incinerator is operated by the Wiesbaden company MHKW in Biebrich.

Burned 240,000 tons per year of non-hazardous solid waste and 20,000 tons per year of landfill leachate are allowed.

The generated thermal energy is fed into the district heating network of the Wiesbaden Eswe supply, and thermal energy is also converted into electricity.

That with the incineration The resulting flue gas must be cleaned using a flue gas cooler and special systems. The applicable limit values ​​for air pollutants such as dust, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides or mercury are clearly undercut. mre

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240,000 tons of non-hazardous solid waste and 20,000 tons of landfill leachate per year may be incinerated in the planned construction. The plant will generate district heating and electricity. 100,000 megawatt hours of thermal energy are to be fed into the district heating network of the Wiesbaden Eswe supply. Garbage tourism should expressly not exist, it says in the permit. Orders from other cities for garbage disposal should not be accepted.

Contract penalty possible

In 2018, Knettenbrech & Gurdulic was awarded the contract by the state capital to dispose of 70,000 tons of Wiesbaden household waste per year locally. At first it was not clear to the responsible persons on the supervisory board of the municipal company for the mechanical treatment of waste that this also meant the construction of a new waste-to-energy plant. From the point of view of some critics, the contract with Rhein-Main-Abfall-GmbH, in whose Frankfurt plant the Wiesbaden garbage had previously been disposed of, had been terminated under false conditions. There were protests, the state government reprimanded the procedure because it had bypassed the political bodies. But the invitation to tender was irreversible. The contract with Knettenbrech & Gurdulic runs until 2033.

The fact that the plant goes into operation with a delay was discussed in the committees as a breach of contract that could result in a contractual penalty. Because as long as the Wiesbaden plant is not down, the garbage must be incinerated in a facility operated by the utility Entega in Darmstadt, which has a poorer ecological balance sheet. For the environmental policy spokeswoman for the Wiesbaden Green Group, Konny Küpper, the late start is therefore “not a good development for the climate and the environment”.

It remains to be seen whether K&G will be asked to pay for the delay. “I hope that the ongoing discussions on the subject will lead to a result that is satisfactory for everyone,” says Nadine Ruf, environmental policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group. After all, the reasons for the delay cannot be assigned.

In order to promote the construction of the waste incineration plant, K&G founded the MHKW Wiesbaden with ESWE and Entega, each with 24.5 percent of the shares. K&G holds 51 percent. The power plant would cost a “low three-digit million amount”, it was said at the time.

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