Egypt brings online its first trigeneration waste-to-energy facility: Egypt-based energy industry contractor Korra Energi inaugurated a waste-to-energy plant to repurpose the waste generated by Korra’s power plant and its flare gas projects in the Abu Rawash industrial complex to generate power, according to a statement release last week. The financials of the trigeneration project were not disclosed, but Korra Energi will own and operate the plant under a 10-year build-own-operate-transfer agreement, Zawya reports.

The details: The trigeneration facility will generate 27 MWh of electricity, 430 tons per hour of refrigerated water for industrial cooling, as well as 16 tons of steam on an hourly basis, offsetting some 40k tons of CO2 emissions per year and reduce fuel consumption by 25%, according to the statement.

Not Korra’s first waste-to-energy project in the country: The company launched its first waste to energy plant in Egypt’s 6th of October governorate in 2009. The facility repurposes 32k tons of waste to generate some 300 mn tons of refrigeration for industrial cooling offsetting 80k tons of CO2 emissions, according to a statement.

Abu Rawash has another waste-to-energy project in the pipeline: Renergy Group Partners — a joint venture between Egypt’s National Organization of Military Production and Green Tech Egypt — is also planning a waste-to-energy project in Abu Rawash which is expected to convert some 1.2k tons of municipal solid waste per day to 30 MWh of electricity.

Waste-to-energy is picking up in the region: Bee’ah Recycling — a subsidiary of Emirati waste management company Bee’ah — added a new solid recovered fuel processing facility to its integrated waste management complex in Sharjah, producing some 85k tons of green fuel annually. Bee’ah also signed an MoU with US- and UK-based waste-to-energy focused tech company Chinook Sciences and Japanese gas conglomerate Air Water to form a consortium aimed at setting up a waste-to-hydrogen plant in Sharjah. Egypt’s Suez Cement is investing USD 25 mn in plans to generate some 20 MW of power from the waste heat recovery facility at its Helwan plant. Kuwait Municipality also approved a refuse-driven fuel project to power up its main cement production plant in October, and Saudi Electricity Company is reportedly planning waste energy-powered projects.