The Sysav plant in Malmö is the most energy efficient waste-to-energy plant in Sweden. With an advanced flue gas cleaning system Sysav manages to stay way below the emission rights. 

Sysav’s waste-to-energy plant has four boilers. The two oldest came into operation in 1973. They are hot-water boilers which produce district heating. Both the boilers and the system for cleaning flue gases have been reconditioned and developed in line with heightened demands on waste combustion. The two newest boilers are steam boilers and generate both electricity and district heating. They came online in 2003 and 2008 respectively.

In total, Sysav is permitted to use 550,000 tonnes of waste a year as fuel. The plant produces approximately 1,400,000 MWh of district heating a year, which roughly equates to the district heating of 70,000 small houses. The steam boilers produced around 250,000 MWh of electricity a year in total, some of which is used in the plant itself.