Garbage-fired power station starts in Bali
BALI ~ A power station fuelled by garbage has started operating in Bali, Indonesia, and is supplying electricity to the local state-owned electricity company.
The Sarbagita station is located at a garbage dump about 10 kilometres from the capital, Denpasar and is expected to produce 2 megawatts (MW) of electricity this year, increasing to 9.6 MW by 2010.
The project is a joint venture between PT Navigat Organic Energi Indonesia (NOEI), and General Electric, which manages the project.
The plant is using an integrated garbage-processing technique, comprising gasification, landfill use and anaerobic digestion, according to a report in the Jakarta Times.
In its first phase, the plant will process garbage from 68 dump trucks per day, equal to about 600 cubic metres of waste. At full capacity, it is expected to process about 12,000 tons of garbage per day.
Sarbagita is Bali’s first project under the Clean Development Mechanism which is a scheme under the Kyoto Protocol whereby industrialised countries with greenhouse gas reduction commitments invest in projects that reduce harmful emissions in developing countries.
Bali chose garbage-fired production of electricity from landfill gas because environmentalists on the island advised that methane gas from garbage is one of the main contributors to global warming and climate change.
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