Veolia has been selected in a competitive tender process, to maintain the management of the 180-gigawatt-hour-per-year VESTA waste-to-energy plant located in France. The company was awarded an estimated €116 million contract to continue to operate the plant for a period of other 6 years and half. The VESTA plant is designed to handle and recover household and assimilated waste collected in the region, and selling the output to the French electricity grid.