Most Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants (country)

According to a 2019 report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), China now has the largest number of waste-to-energy (WtE) plants of any country, with 339 as of 2017. It was projected that would have increased to 400 by the year 2020.

The Chinese central government is placing a large emphasis on WtE plants, with plans for these facilities to dispose of almost one-third of all the country's waste by 2030. As of 2017, China's combined WtE plants had an installed annual capacity to produce 7.3GWh of electricity from 100 million tonnes (110 million US tons) of solid waste.

The current largest WtE plant in Asia is the Lujiashan MSW incineration plant in Beijing, China, with a daily processing rate of 3,000 tonnes (1.1 million tonnes per annum). Another WtE facility that is being built by Babcock and Wilcox Volund in Shenzhen, China - scheduled to be completed by 2021 - has a proposed daily processing capacity of 5,000 tonnes (1.8 million tonnes per annum), which would make it the largest WtE plant in the world by capacity.