12 MW electricity to be generated from Ctg waste

Chattogram Bureau :

The initiative to generate 12 MW of electricity by converting the collected waste of the Chattogram City Corporation into electricity through environmentally friendly technology will be taken, said Mayor Dr. Shahadat Hossain.

The mayor made this announcement as the chief guest at the presentation of the feasibility study report of the ‘Waste to Electricity Project in Chattogram City’ organized at the city’s Peninsula Hotel on Monday.

He said that if Chattogram city is to be built as a clean and healthy city, there is no alternative to modern and integrated waste management. We want to see waste as an asset, not a burden. The City Corporation is determined to implement the feasibility study of generating electricity from waste using environmentally friendly technology with Japan’s assistance.

According to the study, the daily processing capacity of the proposed plant will be 1,000 tons of waste and the project will be operated for 25 years on the basis of 330 days of operation annually.

The project will have a power generation capacity of 15.1 MW (gross) and 12.6 MW (net), which can be supplied to the national grid. The G-2G cooperation model proposed in the 2025 updated study has the opportunity for subsidy with the support of Japan’s JCM (Joint Crediting Mechanism).

If the project is implemented, it will be possible to reduce the amount of waste going to the city’s landfill by 70 to 90 percent, thereby increasing the life of the landfill and reducing environmental pollution.

The study has analyzed three business models G-2G cooperation model, private sector benefit model and limited support model. Out of these, it has been mentioned that it is possible to achieve an internal rate of return (P-IRR) of more than 11 percent in the first two models.