EQTEC plc announced the acquisition and planned recommissioning of a 1MWe waste-to-energy plant in Italy. Originally commissioned in 2015, the plant is built around EQTEC's proprietary and patented Advanced Gasification Technology. The Company has acquired, and will lead a consortium to repower, own and operate, the biomass-to-energy plant (the "Plant") in Castiglione d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy. Once operational, it is intended that the plant will transform straw and forestry wood waste from local farms and forests into green electricity and heat for use in the local community. The Plant is the first of two such facilities with EQTEC's technology that have been decommissioned by previous owner-operators in recent years and that the Company has targeted for repowering to full operation. The Company intends for the Plant to become the first of its 'Market Development Centres ("MDCs"), which will showcase its technology in a fully operational, commercial setting. The Company will make further announcements about the planned acquisition of a facility in Croatia in due course.