Wheelabrator Technologies names new CEO

Robert C. Boucher Jr.

Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., which operates waste-to-energy conversion plants in Peekskill and Bridgeport, on Thursday announced that Robert C. Boucher Jr. will step in as the company”™s new president and CEO on July 13. He succeeds Mark A. Weidman, a 25-year Wheelabrator employee, at the helm of the international renewable energy company headquartered in Hampton, N.H.

Boucher previously was CEO and executive director of Transpacific Industries Group Ltd., a publicly traded waste management business in Australia. He has more than 20 years of experience in the U.S. waste management industry.

In Peekskill, Wheelabrator Westchester LP operates a plant on John Walsh Boulevard, where it supplies steam energy to an industrial neighbor, the White Plains Linen commercial laundry plant. In Connecticut, the 27-year-old Wheelabrator Bridgeport LP plant supplies energy generated from garbage to two dozen municipalities in Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties.

Wheelabrator Technologies in December was acquired by Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on energy infrastructure with an office in Short Hills, N.J., in a $1.94 billion deal.