Landmark of Vienna
The Spittelau waste incineration plant is a piece of art that processes around 270,000 tonnes of household waste every year to produce green heating and electricity.
Our project in numbers
The Spittelau waste incineration plant makes a key contribution to Vienna’s waste management system. Around 50 percent of the energy produced every year from waste incineration comes from biogenic or renewable sources. The environmentally-friendly heating produced at Spittelau is enough to heat more than 60,000 households in Vienna in a year. 30,000 households can be supplied with electricity every year.
250.000 t
household waste are processed yearly
60 GWh
of electricity are fed into the grid every year
500 GWh
of green heat are produced every year
Project details
In Austria it is forbidden to simply dump untreated waste. Thermal waste treatment plays an important role today. Pollutants are destroyed with a high degree of efficiency and the volume to be dumped is lowered. The combustion process is monitored and advanced flue-gas cleaning technology prevents any harm from being done to the environment. Wien Energie is 90 percent below the legal thresholds set for waste incineration plants on a yearly average. This is one of the best performances anywhere in the world.