It should come as no surprise that things get "hot" in an incinerator. But what we do with the heat may surprise you.

Not only do we use it ourselves, we also feed some of it into Mainz's district heating network. This provides heating for several thousand households. We also use a turbine to generate electricity for the electrical equipment in the incineration plant and, to some extent, the sewage treatment plant. This is another advantage of having the plant in Mainz. And it's an additional building block in terms of environmental protection.