Waste Energy: Project Plans Construction of Innovative Plant That Transforms Trash Into Energy

Written by Roberta Souza

Published on 23/12/2021 at 17:07

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The Expectation Is That the Installation Works of the Plant Will Start in 2022 and Be Completed in 2025

The construction of the new energy generation plant from waste will be located in the interior of São Paulo, in an industrial park in Nova Odessa, near the Anhanguera highway. Once the last bureaucratic details are settled, it is expected that the works will begin in the second half of next year and be completed by 2025.

Job Creation

Consimares expects that indirect jobs will employ more than 5,000 people to carry out the construction of the plant and that, after the works are completed, 200 employees will be hired to work in the operation of the new waste plant.

Waste Production

Of the nearly 80 million tons of waste produced annually in Brazil, only a small portion is repurposed into energy. This is because the energy derived from urban waste represents only 0.1% of the total installed capacity of the energy matrix.

According to the mapping by ABREN (Brazilian Association for Energy Recovery from Waste), Brazil has the potential to install 120 energy generation units from waste in the 28 metropolitan regions with over 1 million inhabitants.

Data from CCEE (Chamber of Electric Energy Commercialization) further reveal that, from January to October 2021, 20 urban waste biogas plants generated an average of 119.5 MW to the SIN (National Interconnected System), which corresponds to 0.18% of the total generation from all energy sources in the country during that period.

Operation of a Biogas Plant

In general, energy generation plants using waste operate by converting the chemical energy of gas into mechanical energy through a controlled combustion process. This mechanical energy activates a generator that produces electric energy.

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