Developing waste to energy in sustainable waste management – accelerating best practice and world class solutions

Interest in waste to energy, and waste as a resource, as part of a sustainable waste management strategy, is growing rapidly in many regions globally, but few are as dynamic as the wider Middle East region.

As the organisers of the Energy from Waste London conference, we have a twenty year track record of delivering one of the most important events for waste to energy development in the sector.

At the London event, we regularly bring together over 500 senior level policy makers, industry leaders, financiers and investors, innovators, waste managers, technical experts, engineers, advisors and suppliers, for two days of top level information exchange, uniquely valuable networking, and crucial business development opportunities.

We are now launching Energy from Waste Middle East to serve the rapidly accelerating Middle East and wider market.

Dubai, home of the world’s largest waste to energy plant, is the venue for the Energy from Waste conference, and a site visit to this plant is a scheduled part of the conference programme.

Bookings will open shortly; meanwhile, register your interest here, and we will ensure you are kept up to date with the latest information.

Key topics include

- The policies, structures and regulations needed to drive investor confidence

- Developing partnerships and business models

- Securing investor buy-in and aligning stakeholders

- Optimising the value of waste as a resource, through sustainable, multi-treatment approaches

- Delivering a project on the ground – lessons learnt in construction, engineering and technical feasibility

- Asset optimisation – ensuring best ROI, high performance, and developing internal knowledge and skills

- The plant of the future – technical developments for highest possible efficiency

- Decarbonisation – the opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage

- Waste to high value outputs – developments in waste to SAF, waste to hydrogen, waste to X

- The development of RDF / SRF markets – a route to decarbonising other sectors, and a pathway to high value outputs

Tribe has had the pleasure of acting in an advisory capacity for all three of the successfully procured waste to energy projects in the UAE, with two of them now in operations and the third in construction. Each of the projects were structured using different business models, adapted to the specific requirements of the individual Emirate. Given these project successes, we are seeing a noticeable uptake in interest in waste to energy solutions, and many countries in the GCC and wider region are actively exploring waste to energy and waste to x solutions…

James Cook Advisory, CEO Tribe

Ricardo has a global presence in the waste to energy sector, and the Middle East is currently our most dynamic and strongly growing region. We advise governments and corporations on all aspects of waste and resource management, and we see tremendous ambition across the region to put in place world leading strategies and infrastructure.

Richard Davidson Middle East Director - Waste Ricardo PLC

The Middle East region is striving to modernize their waste management strategies, and Energy from Waste is one of the key cornerstones in the overall strategies. This is demonstrated by the existing plants, plants under construction and plants to be realized in the near future combining the latest developments, high efficiency and stringent emission criteria comparable to the state of the art in the industry. Ramboll is one of the world’s leading engineering consultancies, providing expert technical advice on all aspects of energy from waste, and has been, and is currently, engaged in numerous developments across the region.

Jan Teir Senior Chief Project Manager Ramboll

Over 550 senior level professionals attended this year in London!

Energy from Waste 2025 brought together over 550 senior level attendees from all parts of the waste to energy industry, from the UK and globally, for two days of exceptional knowledge sharing, industry development and top level networking.

Download the 2025 post event report to find out more.

Download the 2025 Energy from Waste Post-Event Report