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electricity production in any one country. Therefore, the potential for WtE to significantly

contribute to RES development or as an alternative to other fuels appears limited to rather
incremental contributions.

100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
Municipal (RES)
50%
Municipal (non-RES)
40%
Industrial
30%
20%
10%
0%
Czech Germany Slovakia Hungary Austria Slovenia Serbia
Republic

Figure 10. Distribution of electricity produced from waste by source (Eurostat 2018b)

Regarding heat production, overall there appears to be greater usage of waste. In this

case, the portion of heat produced from waste in DSR countries ranges from a significant 14.56%

in Germany to a negligible 0.05% in Romania (see Figure 11 below). Once again, those countries

not represented in the figure produce no heat from waste. As with electricity, these figures can
then be further broken down according to the specific waste source (MSW vs. industrial) and, in

the case of MSW, whether it is regarded as renewable (see Figure 12 below). Once again, MSW is

the predominant source for most countries, with the exceptions of Slovenia and Romania, both of

which produce heat exclusively from industrial waste. As regards the split between renewable and
non-renewable MSW, only Austria relies more on non-renewable MSW to generate heat.

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