It was built on part of the site of the Millerhill Marshalling Yard; construction began in October 2016 and the plant opened fully in September 2019.
Commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council and Midlothian Council, the plant cost £142 million and will divert 155,000 tons of waste a year from going to landfill.
It burns treated waste to generate electricity which is fed into the National Grid.
[1][2][3] The plant uses combustion and XeroSorp flue gas treatment from Hitachi Zosen Inova.
[4] This is a dry adsorption system which uses sodium bicarbonate to clean the exhaust.