SHAH ALAM: Worldwide Holdings Bhd and Western Power Clean Energy Sdn Bhd have inked a deal to start a garbage disposal system that incorporates a waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerator which will be the biggest and most modern in Kuala Selangor.
The facility will be built at a cost of RM500 million on roughly 6ha near the Jeram sanitary landfill in Kuala Selangor.
Expected to be ready in 2020, it will lessen the demand for landfill space while supporting the government in its ambition to increase renewable energy output to 20% by 2025.
Worldwide group chief executive officer, Datin Paduka Norazlina Zakaria, said in her speech at the signing ceremony between the two companies today attended by China Western Power Engineering and Construction Co Ltd vice president, Wu Bin and Selangor Mentri Besar Amirudin Shari that the facility can process up to 1,200 metric tonnes of solid waste to produce 25 megawatts of power a day.
“The waste is used as fuel to heat a furnace which produces steam to run a turbine that generates electricity,“ she added.
At a press conference after the signing of the joint development agreement, Norazlina said there is a possibility two more incinerators will be erected seeing that 7,000 metric tonnes of solid waste ends up in Kuala Selangor a day.
“We have identified a few suitable places, one of them being Tanjung Dua Belas, Kuala Langat, for an incineration facility,“ she said.
Amirudin said: “The state government is committed to ensuring solid waste is processed using high technology and it doesn’t incur a cost burden on the local authorities and the people.” — Bernama
