Vietnam's largest waste-to-energy plant begins operation

Trash is piled up inside a chamber of the Soc Son waste-to-energy plant in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

Vietnam's largest waste-to-energy plant, capable of handling 4,000 tons of dry waste a day, began operations Monday morning in Hanoi.

The first generator of the Soc Son plant, which has a capacity of 15MW, joined the national grid at around 8:05 a.m. It will burn around 1,000 tons of waste, around one-seventh of the amount of trash produced in the capital every day, to generate electricity.

Li Ke, deputy director of the plant, all technical adjustments for the second generator have been completed and it will also begin operations after getting approval from the authorities. Three combustion chambers have also been successfully calibrated and can operate as soon as they are allowed to, he said.

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