In order to run and manage the Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant, a Joint Venture is established

Emirates Garbage to Energy is a joint venture between BEEAH Group and Masdar that can process 300,000 tonnes of municipal waste annually and generate 30 MW of low-carbon energy, enough to supply up to 28,000 houses with electricity and prevent the release of 450,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. In recent years, Sharjah has managed to achieve a rate of 76% in terms of trash avoided from the landfill. Now that the facility is up and running, Sharjah will be the first Middle Eastern city to send zero garbage to landfills.

CEO of Veolia Near and Middle East Pascal Grante said, "We are incredibly happy to be working with BEEAH and Masdar on the region's first commercial-scale waste-to-energy facility in Sharjah. Veolia is committed to preventing municipal solid waste from going to landfills and is proud to help the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) drive toward green energy as part of our mission to advance ecological change. These objectives are mutually supportive, and the project's design is consistent with the United Arab Emirates' lofty environmental aims.

Chief Executive Officer of BEEAH Group Khaled Al Huraimel made the following statement: "Working with Veolia and Masdar is a major step toward our goal of creating a Sharjah and United Arab Emirates free of landfill trash and with negligible environmental impact. Our zero-waste-to-landfill and integrated waste management ecosystem will be further developed over the next quarter century at the Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant. Our mission as we speed up the implementation of the global sustainability agenda is to show that this facility is replicable throughout the United Arab Emirates, the region, and beyond."

Masdar CEO Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi said, "Masdar is happy to welcome Veolia to the fold to help operate and maintain our flagship Sharjah Waste to Energy Project alongside BEEAH. Veolia's experience in ecological solutions, Masdar's knowledge of clean energy, and BEEAH's knowledge of waste management will all come together to enable Sharjah and the UAE in reaching their zero-waste and net-zero goals through the region's first commercial-scale waste-to-energy facility.

BEEAH Recycling, the Group's waste processing and material recovery business, works in tandem with the Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant to create a comprehensive waste management complex in the Emirate of Sharjah. The waste management complex has eleven specialised facilities that allow it to collect nearly all recyclables from the garbage it processes. The leftover trash will subsequently be sent to the facility for thermal processing. This process generates heat that is used to power a boiler, which in turn drives a turbine to generate electricity.

Masdar and the BEEAH Group, two leaders in the waste management and renewable energy sectors, have both pointed out the growing significance of waste to energy in meeting these difficulties. The Emirates Waste to Energy corporation envisions the Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant as the first of many similar initiatives across the country and the region. Masdar is also involved in the waste-to-energy business in Australia, where it is currently building the East Rockingham Waste to Energy Project in Perth, Western Australia, and where it is an equity partner in the Maryvale Energy from the Waste project in the state of Victoria.