Joined Up Thinking – Waste to Energy in Singapore

Between 1970 and 2016, Singapore’s growing population and booming economy caused a seven-fold increase in waste generation. But the city nation, renowned for its cleanliness, has not sat idly by as mountains of waste slowly overshadowed its island. Currently, Singapore’’s solid waste disposal infrastructure consists of four waste to energy plants –- Tuas, Senoko, Tuas South and Keppel Seghers Tuas , as well as the Semakau Landfill which opened on 1 April 1999 and is currently Singapore’s only landfill facility.

To that end, in April this year a Keppel-led consortium received the Letter of Acceptance from the NEA for an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract worth approximately S$1.5 billion, (US$1.07 billion) for the development of a Wwaste to Eenergy facility and a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) for Singapore’s new Tuas Nexus Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF).

The NEA says that “As a state-of-the-art flagship facility, it will be developed with innovative solutions that can maximise both energy and resource recovery from solid waste.” As the IWMF and the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (TWRP) will be co-located at the same Tuas View Basin site, various synergies will be derived to benefit both the NEA an7d PUB (the Public Utilities Board).rd).

Source: Waste Management World

Author: Kirsi Seppänen