(News Portal – Dong Nai) - As a province generating a large amount of waste and is assigned a high waste-to-energy development target, Dong Nai is receiving attention from investors in the field of waste power.
In fact, two foreign enterprises and one domestic corporation have proposed that the province implement a project to burn household waste to generate electricity. If we include projects that the province and businesses are promoting, Dong Nai will have 5-7 waste-to-energy projects.
Burning industrial waste at Vinh Tan commune waste treatment area
“Big player" proposes to generate electricity from waste
At the beginning of 2024, an investor from Taiwan, Chieu Minh Investment Company Limited (based in HCMC), proposed to the province to implement the project of waste treatment using waste incineration technology to generate electricity in Cam My District. Mr. Fan Hao, representative of the unit proposing the project, said that the company has studied and wants to invest in technology to treat industrial, hazardous and domestic waste in Xuan My waste treatment area.
This is not a completely new project, but an investment to add infrastructure and upgrade technology for the existing treatment area. When the project comes into operation, it will contribute to protecting the living environment and ecological environment for the province, creating recycled products towards the green industry direction, and creating jobs for local workers.
“We want to implement this project because of the economic, social and environmental goals of both the province and the company. The project meets Vietnam's standards on waste treatment, in line with Dong Nai's planning for waste treatment areas," - Mr. Fan Hao shared.
Another foreign company also wants to invest in the field of domestic waste treatment, Asia New Generation Company (based in HCMC). Working with the provincial leaders in December 2023, Mr. Willy Andreas Kirsch, Chairman of the company's Board of Directors, said that the company wants to bring modern German waste treatment technology to the waste treatment area in Xuan Tam commune (Xuan Loc district). It is called INTEC-TCP technology (pyrolysis), waste does not need to be classified, not incinerated directly, but treated by gasification method, which limits the emission of waste gas, and can generate from 1.2-1.8 MWh of electricity per ton of waste.
According to Mr. Willy Andreas Kirsch, if legal conditions are favorable, this project can start at the beginning of 2024. This will contribute to promoting environmental protection, realizing the Net Zero target of the Vietnamese Government.
Previously, a domestic corporation, Amaccao (headquartered in Hanoi City), proposed to the province to simultaneously implement two waste burning projects to generate electricity; an industrial conversion cooperation project at the existing processing area and a completely new investment project. This group analyzed its advantages as having invested in a waste burning project to generate electricity in Hanoi City, using technology imported from Europe, thoroughly reusing ash and slag from waste burning activities to produce brick.
In addition to the 3 big players proposing the above projects, the province is implementing a waste-to-energy incineration project with a scale of 1.2 thousand tons/day in Vinh Tan commune (Vinh Cuu district). At the same time, the investors of the waste treatment areas currently operating in Quang Trung commune (Thong Nhat district), Vinh Tan commune (Vinh Cuu district), Bau Can commune (Long Thanh district) are planning to invest in switching to waste-to-energy incineration technology, in which the project has been added to the adjusted Power Plan VII and Power Plan VIII.
Room for development
Dong Nai is becoming a “pie" for investors in the field of waste electricity because of 3 main reasons. Firstly, the province has a large amount of domestic waste, averaging more than 2 thousand tons/day, with a growth rate of 5% a year. Secondly, the plan for the management of solid domestic waste in Dong Nai province issued by the Provincial People's Committee at the end of 2023 sets a target for 2025, the treatment areas must switch to incineration technology to recover energy. Thirdly, in the draft Plan to implement Power Plan VIII, Dong Nai is allocated 66MW of waste electricity (ranked 3rd in the country, after Hanoi and HCMC).
In addition to the above reasons, waste treatment using incineration technology to recover energy is encouraged by environmental laws and is an area that the province prioritizes calling for investment. The project contributes to increasing renewable energy and realizing the goal of carbon neutrality.
Currently, the province has identified 4 out of 7 waste treatment areas that will invest in technology to switch to waste incineration to recover energy: Tuc Trung, Bau Can, Vinh Tan and Quang Trung. These treatment areas have a capacity of about 3.8 thousand tons/day, ensuring that they receive all domestic waste from localities and from companies, production and business establishments, agencies, schools, etc. until 2030. The remaining 3 waste treatment areas will only receive and treat waste from companies, production and business establishments in the future.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Phi said that the province welcomes environmental projects using modern technology, contributing to overall sustainable development. For companies proposing to invest in existing waste treatment areas, the parties will agree on the form of joint investment or project transfer, on that basis, propose the province to continue implementing to reduce procedures. For the waste-to-energy incineration project with a scale of 1.2 thousand tons/day, after completing the pre-feasibility study report, the province will carry out the following procedures to bid to select investors according to the public-private partnership method - PPP.
Dong Nai has great potential to develop waste electricity. Currently, the treatment areas switching to incineration technology to recover energy have been calculated by the province, and the waste electricity development index has been allocated. The province's demand for energy, as well as the demand for renewable electricity consumption of industrial production companies, is high. If the ability to connect to the electricity transmission system is favorable and the price of waste electricity is suitable, it will encourage investors to implement the project early and put it into commercial operation.
Author: Phan Anh
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