Waste-for-power plant plan for west Sydney
Australian Associated Press
Derek Rose
Australian Associated Press3 October 2019
Cleanaway
Cleanaway is proposing to build a waste-for-power plant in Eastern Creek, western Sydney
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Cleanaway Waste Management is proposing to build a $500 million plant to burn waste for power in western Sydney, just a few hundred metres from where a controversial similar bioenergy plant was rejected last year.
It would big enough to burn a third of the household and business red bin waste in western Sydney, garbage that's currently going to landfill, and turn it into enough electricity to power about 65,000 homes.
"Our proposal, if successful, would turn rubbish that would have been landfilled into a clean source of energy that supplies the grid and contributes to more affordable power for consumers," said Cleanaway chief executive Vik Bansal.
The plant would be located in an industrial area in Eastern Creek next to the M7 Motorway, surrounded by waste and recycling centres and located 1km from the nearest residences.
It's close to where Dial-A-Dump proposed to build a slightly larger energy-from-waste facility, plans that were shot down last year by the NSW Independent Planning Commission amid significant community opposition, including a parliamentary inquiry.
Dial-A-Dump was purchased in March by Bingo Industries, which has been contacted for comment, but it's believed the proposal is now with the courts.
Asked what made this Cleanaway's proposal different from Dial-A-Dump's, a Cleanaway spokesman that it would "only accept red bin waste from homes and businesses that cannot be recycled.
"Hazardous waste, demolition and construction waste will not be accepted at the Western Sydney Energy and Resource Recovery Centre".
Mr Bansal said that Cleanway would be talking to the community about the project in the hopes of getting members on board.
"Cleanaway works with communities across Australia and that is a commitment we take very seriously," Mr Bansal said.
While 150 trucks per day would visit the site each day, Cleanway says the plant would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfill by about 450,000 tonnes per year - the equivalent of taking nearly 100,000 cars off the roads.
The plant also would create 800 jobs during construction and 50 highly skilled jobs during operations, Cleanaway says.
It would burn waste at 850C, with the heat creating steam to drive a turbine that would generate up to 45 megawatts of electricity an hour.
Waste-to-energy plants have been around since the 1950s, and while older ones were associated with hazardous emissions, modern plants do not burn hazardous waste and have emission control systems.
Cleanway said that half the plant's footprint would be devoted to cleaning the gases created during incineration, and it would operate far below the allowable level of emissions.
"The centre will be completely safe and similar centres have no measurable impact on air quality," Cleanaway said.
There are four air quality monitoring stations within 7km of the site, and air quality will also be monitored on site.
Nearly 500 such plants operate in Europe.
A joint venture of Phoenix Energy Australia and Macquarie Capital are building Australia's first such plant in Kwinana, WA, 40km south of Perth.
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up
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