The Heating Plant History

RWMC Celje

In Celje and the Savinja Region, we are well aware of the problems of waste management and the responsibility for the protection of the environment. For this reason, we joined the construction project of the Regional Waste Management Centre Celje, which provides comprehensive and responsible waste management. In the centre, the waste is processed to such an extent that it no longer harms the environment (biological waste is composted in the composting plant, separately collected glass, plastic, metal, and paper are reassembled according to the type of material in the sorting plant, mixed municipal waste is mechanically and biologically processed in MBT, bulky waste is disassembled in the dismantling facility, etc.)

Activity timeline:

• 1993
  The Waste Management Strategy for the Celje Municipality is adopted.
• 1995
  Preparatory work for the construction of the Regional Waste Management Centre Celje begins.
• 1997
  A study of the Programme Concept for the construction of the Regional Waste Management Centre is elaborated. The location of the centre is selected and the preliminary design of the facilities is prepared.
• 2001
  A long-term plan representing the basis for the start of construction is adopted. Numerous public hearings with presentations of the project are conducted.
• 2003
  The City Municipality of Celje signs the contract on the co-financing of the Regional Waste Management Centre Celje, thus cooperating in the joint project for waste management in the region, which will solve the problem of the regional waste management infrastructure.
• 2004
  The tender documentation for EU Cohesion Fund grants for Phase I is prepared in June.
  In December, the Commission makes the decision to co-finance the project.
• 2005
  The tender documentation for EU Cohesion Fund grants for Phase II is prepared in October.
  In December, the Commission makes the decision to co-finance the second phase of the project.
• 2006
  The construction of Phase I of the Regional Waste Management Centre Celje begins.
• 2007
  The construction of Phase II of the Regional Waste Management Centre Celje begins.
• 2008
  The RWMC Celje facilities enter the trial running stage.
  19th June: the grand opening of the Celje Regional Waste Management Centre’s Phase I facilities.
  18th September: the grand opening of the Celje District Heating Plant.

The Phase of RWMC Construction

The construction of the centre was divided in two phases. In the first phase, the following facilities were constructed: the sorting plant, dismantling facility, the administrative building, and the landfill for the rest of the waste. In the second phase, the Mechanical and Biological Treatment Plant and the Celje Heating Plant were built.

Financing

The net investment value of the sub-project of Phase II RWMC Celje – The thermal treatment of municipal waste (The Celje Heating Plant) is €18.6 million.

The project investor is the Municipality of Celje (Mestna občina Celje).

The implementation is co-financed by the European Union Cohesion Fund and the Republic of Slovenia.

The sources of funding are:

The Celje Heating Plant Today

On 24 August 2010, the Celje Heating Plant was taken over by the investor in the project, Municipality of Celje, from a consortium of contractors: Kiv Vransko, CM Celje, and Mollier.

Since 1 September 2010, the Celje Heating Plant is managed by Energetika Celje, javno podjetje, d.o.o., which holds the concessions for performing public services in the field of waste incineration.

Heat treatment of municipal waste in the Celje Heating Plant presents a final stage of the preliminary mechanical and biological treatment of municipal waste in the Celje Regional Waste Management Centre and Central Wastewater Treatment Plant. The technological process enables the energy utilization of light fractions of residual municipal waste and sludge from the CWTP for the production of heat and electrical energy.