As of 31 December 2023, Everbright Environment (“the Group”) had a business presence in 225 cities, counties and districts across 26 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and special administrative region in China, with overseas business markets in Germany, Poland, Vietnam and Mauritius. The Group invested in and secured a total of 592 environmental protection projects, with an aggregate investment of approximately RMB160.655 billion. It also undertook various asset-light projects and services, such as environmental remediation, engineering design, procurement, construction and operation (“EPCO”), engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”), operation and management (“O&M”), equipment supply, and technical services. As the world’s largest waste-to-energy investor and operator, the Group had a total of 191 waste-to-energy projects (including 1 O&M project and 1 EPCO project) under its environmental energy and greentech sectors, with a designed daily household waste processing capacity of 158,900 tonnes.
As of 31 December 2023, Everbright Environment’s major service and treatment capacities are summarised as below:
| Project Category | Designed Treatment / Supply Capacity |
| Household waste | 158,900 tonnes/day# |
| Food and kitchen waste | 8,743 tonnes/day# |
| Water treatment* | 7,468,100 m3/day |
| Biomass raw materials | 8,139,800 tonnes/year |
| Heat and steam supply | 7,957,495 tonnes/year |
| Solar power installed capacity | 140.39 megawatt |
#Including treatment capacity under the O&M model
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Environmental energy is a core business sector of the Group, with the largest scale and biggest business portion, covering waste-to-energy, food and kitchen waste treatment, leachate treatment, fly ash treatment, methane-to-energy, sludge treatment and disposal, construction and decoration waste treatment, development of environmental protection industrial parks, integrated urban services, waste sorting, resource utilisation and recycling, as well as technical consultancy and engineering design relating to environmental protection. During 2023, with a focus on the area of solid waste, environmental energy further improved the deployment of the Group’s waste-to-energy industry chain, consistently facilitated integrated development of the resources and energy integrated utilisation businesses, and maintained a solid leading position in the industry.
As of 31 December 2023, environmental energy had invested in and held 281 projects, with a total investment of approximately RMB98.318 billion, and undertook 2 O&M projects, 2 EPCO projects, and other types of asset-light businesses. These projects (including processing capacity under the O&M model) are designed to have an annual household waste processing capacity of 53,782,750 tonnes, an annual on-grid electricity of 18,309,554,700 kWh, an annual food and kitchen waste processing capacity of 3,169,295 tonnes, an annual sludge treatment capacity of 503,700 tonnes, and an annual medical waste processing capacity of 20,258 tonnes.
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Environmental Water (www.ebwater.com)
As of 31 December 2023, the Group held a 72.87% stake in China Everbright Water Limited (“Everbright Water”), which is listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited and the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”). As a first-class water environment management service provider in China, Everbright Water focuses on the “water-related” business areas. It has developed a fully-fledged business coverage, which includes raw water protection, water supply, municipal waste water treatment, industrial waste water treatment, reusable water, river-basin ecological restoration, and sludge treatment and disposal. It has also formed a full industry chain in the water business, including project investment, planning and design, technology research and development (“R&D”) and related services, engineering and construction, operations management and integrated diagnosis, among others. Everbright Water is proactively creating value to industries through various water businesses.
As of 31 December 2023, Everbright Water had invested in and held 166 projects, with a total investment of approximately RMB30.78 billion. It also undertook 7 O&M projects, 3 EPCO projects and other types of asset-light businesses. These projects (including treatment capacity under the O&M model) are designed to have an annual waste water treatment capacity of 2,300,412,000 m3 , an annual reusable water supply capacity of 115,194,000 m3, an annual water supply capacity of 310,250,000 m3, and an annual sludge treatment capacity of 793,875 tonnes.
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Greentech (www.ebgreentech.com)
As of 31 December 2023, the Group held a 69.7% stake in China Everbright Greentech Limited (“Everbright Greentech”), which is listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. Everbright Greentech focuses on clean energy business deployment and develops zero-carbon parks. With business covering integrated biomass utilisation, hazardous and solid waste treatment, environmental remediation, and new energy, Everbright Greentech positions itself as a leading intelligent energy supplier dedicated to carbon neutrality in China.
As of 31 December 2023, Everbright Greentech had invested in and held 140 projects, with a total investment of approximately RMB30.935 billion. These projects are designed to have an annual biomass raw material processing capacity of 8,139,800 tonnes, an annual household waste processing capacity of 4,215,750 tonnes, an annual hazardous and solid waste processing capacity of 2,466,400 tonnes, an annual on-grid electricity of 7,047,733,085 kWh, an annual steam supply of 6,046,663 tonnes, and solar and wind power installed capacity of 236.39 megawatt. In addition, Everbright Greentech undertook 18 environmental remediation services (excluding services that had been completed and delivered).
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With Everbright Environmental Technical Equipment (Changzhou) Limited being the platform, the Group’s equipment manufacturing sector strives to upgrade its factories from the country’s “Green Factories” to “Zero-carbon Factories”, and proactively fosters a new development paradigm for the “Intelligently Made by Everbright”, continuing to solidify its industry-leading position.
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Being the Group’s engine for technology R&D and innovation, envirotech focused on key research areas such as household waste treatment, treatment of various hazardous and solid waste, agricultural and forestry biomass utilisation, water environment management, big data, and intelligent control, etc. As the Group’s platform for core technological innovation and commercialisation of results, envirotech is dedicated to tackling the difficulties of environmental protection processes and technologies and aims at cutting-edge technologies worldwide.
As of 31 December 2023, Everbright Environment held authorised patents of 1,783 and published 97 major essays.
