The market potential for energy recovery from waste is North America is significant. Alter NRG has the market leading position with the world’s only commercial energy recovery from waste facilities handling MSW and the world’s largest hazardous waste facilities. If this market leading position can be translated into a 10% market share this would result in over $3.0 billion in technology sales and annual operating revenues from the energy recovery from waste facilities.

The North American Opportunity for Energy Recovery from Waste

• North America is behind the times - The United States thermally treats less than 10% and Canada less than 3% of their residual waste, positioning both countries for growth in thermal treatment using plasma gasification.
  

• Beyond North America, the opportunity for energy recovery from waste projects is significant. The market drivers, no matter where the geographic opportunity, is a confluence of:
  • high tipping fees
  • large waste generation
  • high power prices
  • high-density areas such as Europe and southeast Asia
  • financial incentives for renewable energy
  • regulatory initiatives to end landfilling

Utashinai and Mihama-Mikata are the only plasma gasification plants processing MSW in the world on a commercial basis at this time.

Juniper Consultancy