Thai Firms Collaborate to Develop Waste-to-Energy Power Plants

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A consortium of Thai power and waste management companies intend to build 12 waste-to-energy power facilities and three refuse-derived fuel production plants. The move is part of the country’s effort to support bio, circular, and green economic strategies.

 

Acting Managing Director of waste services company Earth Tech Environment, Supawat Khunvoravinij, stated that the goal is to create facilities capable of power generation while improving industrial waste management. He emphasised the pivotal role of these facilities in enhancing energy security and supporting governmental industrial waste management policies.

 

Earth Tech Environment is collaborating with power producer Gulf Energy Development, waste recycling and power generation operator Waste Tech Exponential, and waste storage and transportation provider Better World Green, to develop these projects. A power purchase agreement has already been signed with the Provincial Electricity Authority, the nation’s state-run power distributor. The power facilities are expected to be operational within two years.

 

Gulf and Earth Tech Environment will jointly fund and develop 10 waste-to-energy power plants, each with an 8-megawatt power capacity. The equally invested joint venture is projected to cost around 15 billion baht.

 

Two more waste-fired power projects will be financed by Gulf (34%), Waste Tech Exponential (33%), and Earth Tech Environment (33%). Gulf and Better World Green will also develop three waste processing plants to furnish refuse-derived fuel for the power facilities. The construction costs of these facilities have not been disclosed.

 

Supawat Khunvoravinij underscored the potential of using waste as fuel in reducing reliance on fossil fuels, a considerable contributor to climate change.

 

Photo courtesy of Bangkok Post

 

-- ASEAN NOW 2024-04-25

 

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[WHansen]

I spent 3 months hydro testing the boilers and pipework on one of these facilities a couple of years ago.

Very clever use of waste and the bonus is the rubbish doesn't end up in landfills

[Kinnock]

Would be good if they added a way to collect rice straw and sugar cane waste for use as fuel.  That would also cut down on smoke pollution