France’s Veolia becomes Turkey’s first WtE plant operator: The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Waste Management Company awarded the contract for the operation and maintenance of Turkey’s first waste-to-energy (WtE) production plant to French resource management firm Veolia last week, according to a statement. The plant — which will be located in Istanbul — is set to be Europe’s largest WtE production plant once operational, the statement notes. No financial details or a proposed timeline were disclosed in the statement.

The details: The plant will have a processing capacity of some 1.1 mn tons of non-repurposable household waste annually once fully operational. It will be equipped with a 85 MW turbine, producing nearly 560k MWh of clean energy on a yearly basis, the statement notes.

Veolia is active in MENA’s waste management sector: The French firm is part of the Masdar-led consortium which will operate and maintain the Sharjah WtE plant until 2047. The company’s Middle East division is also part of a JV including Saudi Arabia’s Vision Invest and Abu Dhabi’s ADQ, which had announced last November plans to acquire Adnoc Refining’s waste management operations.