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Pakistan's first waste based energy project gets generation license

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ISLAMABAD: In line with its efforts to promote renewable and indigenous resources for power generation, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has granted generation license to Lahore Xingzhong Renewable Energy Company (Private) Limited, for setting up a 40.0 MW waste to energy based power plant at Lakhodair, district Lahore.

The project will deploy state of the art incineration type generation facility and the most suitable waste to energy technology, said a press release issued here Monday.

It is relevant to highlight that the project will reduce 2000 tons/day of the city’s municipal solid waste to generate electricity and is seem as silver bullet to address the municipality’s waste and energy needs of the country.

In this regard, NEPRA has already announced a Competitive Upfront Tariff of US Cents 10.007/kWh for waste to energy projects based on 25 years operational period, with overall capacity cap of 250 MW wherein the share of each province and Federal Territory have been kept at 50 MW each.

Successful implementation of the project will pave way for other such initiatives to solve pressing waste disposal problems and challenges of limited space for landfills and gas emissions resulting cleaner cities and healthy life.
 
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u need to establish such plants in Karachi specially, its already a dustbin.
 
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Being from an infrastructure background, incinerator are a good idea for places with huge amounts of waste, and with no waste management programs. However, there is a critical element to this technology that needs to be on top of the list. This is treatment of NOx produced during exhaust/emissions. There needs to be a SCR (Selective Catalyst Reduction) or equivalent system in place to reduce air pollution and to ensure these stay below a certain level. If not treated properly, these emissions can cause havoc on health of the surrounding communities for a few square kilometers. Thus it is hugely important that air pollution standards are implemented and SCR type systems form an important part of this incineration generation technology.
 
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