Covanta

Company description


Covanta is one of the world's largest owners and operators of infrastructure for the conversion of waste-to-energy (EfW), as well as other waste disposal and renewable energy production businesses. Covanta operates and/or has ownership positions in over 40 energy-from-waste facilities in located North America, Italy and China. They also operate other waste management businesses such as transfer stations and metals recycling facilities complementary to our core EfW business.

Covanta-operated facilities in North America convert 20 million tons of trash annually into 9 million megawatt-hours of clean, renewable energy and create more than 9 billion pounds of steam sold to a variety of industries. Covanta's U.S. operations process approximately 65 percent of the nation's EfW volume and generate, in combination with our other renewable energy facilities, approximately eight percent of America's non-hydro renewable electricity.  

Company details

City:
Morristown
Address:
445 South Street

Participation in projects

Projects Transactions
List of the updates in which the company was involved

Company updates

  • July 19, 2021

    EQT Infrastructure enters deal to acquire Covanta Holding Corporation

    Covanta Holding Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement with EQT Infrastructure (EQT), whereby EQT will acquire all shares of Covanta common stock for US$20.25 per share.&nb...

    Read more
  • December 09, 2020

    Protos Energy Recovery Facility achieves financial close

    Covanta Holding Corporation, Green Investment Group Limited (GIG) and Biffa plc have secured the financial close and the commencement of construction on the Protos Energy Recovery Facility (Protos ERF...

    Read more
  • July 09, 2020

    SmartestEnergy offtakes power from 42 MW Newhurst Energy-from-Waste Project in Leicestershire

    Under the 15-year PPA secured after a highly competitive tender process, SmartestEnergy will buy the electricity generated by the new Newhurst Energy-from-Waste ('EfW') facility in Leicestershire, in...

    Read more
  • February 14, 2020

    Biffa, Covanta, GIG achieve financial close for 42 MW Newhurst waste-to-energy project in Leicestershire

    Joint venture partners Covanta Holding Corporation (Covanta), Biffa plc and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), has announced that the 42 MW Newhurst Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facility...

    Read more
  • December 16, 2019

    Covanta signs concession agreement for EfW facility in Zhao County

    Covanta Holding Corporation has signed a concession agreement with Zhao County, China for the construction and operation of a new Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facility. The project is being developed...

    Read more
  • October 11, 2019

    Munich Re to co-invest in Dublin waste-to-energy project

    MR Infrastructure Investment GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Münchner Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in München (Munich Re), DIF Infrastructure V Cooperatief U.A....

    Read more
  • June 06, 2019

    DIF completes acquisition of 69 MW Dublin waste-to-energy project

    DIF, through its most recent fund DIF Infrastructure V, has announced that it has closed the acquisition of a stake in the Dublin Waste to Energy PPP project. The project is an operational waste to en...

    Read more
  • May 15, 2019

    EU Commission approves DIF, GIG and Covanta's joint control over 69 MW waste-to-energy facility in Dublin

    The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of joint control over Covanta Europe Assets Limited (the Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility) of Ireland by D...

    Read more
  • April 16, 2019

    EU Commission checks merger deal for 69 MW waste-to-energy project in Dublin

    The European Commission has received notification of a proposed concentration by which DIF Infrastructure V, Covanta Holding Corporation and Green Investment Group Limited (GIG) will acquire joint con...

    Read more
  • March 28, 2019

    Rookery South ERF reaches financial close

    The Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility project in Bedfordshire, UK has reached a financial close. The project features a moving grate combustion technology. It can accommodate up to 480,000 metri...

    Read more