Jun 24, 2009. /Lesprom Network/. After a three years’ construction period, the energy needs of SCA’s mill in German Witzenhausen are now fully covered by a RDF power plant, the company reports. Production and household waste is treated and incinerated in the new plant. The power plant has a capacity to incinerate 265,000 tons of production waste and household waste from more than 1 million inhabitants of twelve rural districts. The waste is screened, cleaned, separated from heavy metals and other inorganic contaminants, to make sure that only high heat value content material is left over. This product is then used as ‘fuel’ in the RDF power plant and replaces the 30 years old natural gas system, which will only function as a backup in emergency cases. Public grid benefiting When the paper mill is not producing, the steam generated by the power plant is used to produce energy and is fed into the public grid, roughly 33 MW output. Additionally, another renewable energy source has been identified and utilized. Biological gas produced and captured at the paper mill effluent treatment plant is burned in a dedicated new plant and the electrical power is then supplied to the public grid.