On April 2, 2025, the consortium of Instal Warszawa S.A. (leader) and Entsorga ITALIA S.P.A. (partner) signed an agreement with the intermunicipal complex MKUO ProNatura Sp. z o.o. to expand the organic waste recovery plant in Bydgoszcz, adding an anaerobic digestion section.
The renovation of the plant will be crucial to solving the problem of municipal waste management, transforming the OFMSW into compost and biogas, which will then become electrical and thermal energy.
The amount of waste treated is significant:
– The anaerobic digestion section will process at least 45,000 tons per year: a quantity equal to 120 tons of food scraps per day, equivalent to the content of approximately 5 large garbage trucks.
– The tunnel composting line will process at least 34 thousand tons per year, equivalent to almost 7 million bags of grass and leaves.
The plant, which will meet the highest engineering standards, will use semi-dry plug flow technology, a cutting-edge solution for the Polish market, where biogas is generally produced using wet technology. However, the system is not an absolute novelty for Poland, because it has already been applied in a previous plant built by Entsorga in Biala Podlaska, where the semi-dry plug flow anaerobic digestion technology is integrated with a biostabilization line.
From the date of signing the contract, we have 28 months to complete the order.
The project will be financed with a form of grant and loan under Measure 2.10. Rational waste management and land protection – “Development of cogeneration based on urban biogas”.
Biogas, biomethane and development potential in Poland
The signing of this latest contract consolidates our collaboration with Instal Warszawa S.A., a historic Polish company that has been operating in the environmental field for 60 years and with which we had already built an MBT biostabilization plant in Siedlce, but above all it confirms the importance of Poland as an emerging market for Entsorga technologies dedicated to renewables and in particular to biomethane.
Currently there are around 400 biogas plants in operation, mainly from agricultural waste, with a total capacity of 300 MW, which represent less than 1% of the installed capacity in the Polish energy system.
“Of course, the lack of clear regulations and specific incentives do not help” comments our CEO G.F. Galanzino “However, there are positive signs for the development of renewable energy on the Polish market. First of all, the very recent legislation on the separate collection of urban waste that aims to improve recycling efficiency and reduce the use of landfill to a maximum of 10% by 2035. Having good organic waste at the input is the first step to producing good biomethane at the output. Alongside this, we must then encourage the development of infrastructure and give clear signals to investors in terms of support and reduction of bureaucracy. We are facing a young market, which is focusing on laws and procedures to truly support the development of renewable energy, which we believe to be very promising. And the signing of this latest contract confirms its potential.”
