Singapore’s sixth waste-to-energy (WTE) plant can incinerate 3,600 tonnes of waste and generate 120 megawatts of electricity daily. The electricity produced is sufficient to power about 240,000 HDB flats.
Singapore, 27 July 2022 – The TuasOne Waste-To-Energy Plant (TuasOne) was developed under the Public-Private-Partnership framework to provide waste incineration services to the National Environment Agency (NEA). This is Singapore’s sixth WTE plant and the second that was developed under a Design, Build, Own and Operate model[1]. The plant commenced initial operations in December 2021 and has steadily increased its operating capacity since.
2 TuasOne has appointed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering ECO Creation Singapore Co. Ltd (MHIEC ECO Creation) as its long-term operations and maintenance contractor on 22 July 2022. Prior to the appointment of MHIEC ECO Creation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd. (MHIAP) had been operating the plant.
Key highlights of TuasOne
3 Some of the key features of TuasOne are:
a. The plant can incinerate 3,600 tonnes of waste and generate 120 megawatts (MW) of electricity daily;
b. It is located on 4.8 hectares of land and is the most land efficient WTE plant in Singapore to-date;
c. The plant is designed for higher heat recovery from waste incineration and higher electrical power generation efficiency.
4 TuasOne will provide waste incineration services for a minimum period of 25 years to help Singapore meet its long-term waste management needs while recovering energy from waste. The energy generated from incineration is enough to meet the electricity demand of 240,000 4-room HDB flats. Incineration also helps to reduce the volume of waste to ash, by up to 90 per cent (refer to Annex A for photos of TuasOne). With the commencement of operations at TuasOne which was developed to replace the Tuas Incineration Plant (TIP) while catering for growth in Singapore’s WTE capacity, NEA has decommissioned the Tuas Incineration Plant (TIP) after its 36 years of service (refer to Annex B for more information on the decommissioning of TIP).
Post time: Sep-14-2024