The Hinwil waste-to-energy plant took in 1.9 per cent more waste in 2025 – and sold 18 per cent more district heating. The reason for that gap says more about the plant’s future than the tonnage does.
Switzerland’s Kezo treated around 189,000 tonnes of waste at its Hinwil site in 2025. The volume barely moved. What it earned from that waste did.
District heating sales climbed by 18 per cent, deliveries of waste heat to the greenhouses next door by 17 per cent. The plant now generates enough electricity to cover the annual consumption of some 30,000 Swiss households. None of that came from burning more.
The reason lies in what the operator built rather than what it burned – and in a second project now taking shape on the same site, where a pilot unit developed with an industrial partner is due to start capturing CO2 before the end of the year. The carbon it removes will not be stored. It will be put to work a few hundred metres away.
Behind both moves stands one decision that will shape the site for decades, and a financial figure the board is watching closely.
How much heat, power and revenue the plant delivered in 2025, what the replacement facility is intended to do, and who now sits on the board:
Read all the facts and figures about Kazo in 2025 in our brand-new company report.
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