KCHT Power Station

The KCHT Power Station is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at Muthurajawela in Sri Lanka. It is being constructed together with the Aitken Spence Power Station, after it won the bid by the Urban Development Authority from a pool of 121 bidders, 19 of which were foreign. Construction of the facility began on 10 August 2017 and will cost approximately US$95 million, with an estimated completion slated for mid-2019.[1][2]

KCHT Power Station
Country
StatusUnder construction
Construction began
  • 10 August 2017
Construction cost
  • $95 million (2017)
Owner(s)
  • KCHT Lanka Jang
Thermal power station
Primary fuel
Feed-in tariff
Power generation
Nameplate capacity
  • 10 MW

The 10 megawatt power station will be operated by KCHT Lanka Jang (Private) Limited, a subsidiary of the South Korean company KCHT Holding. It will use 630 metric tons (1,390,000 lb) of waste from the Colombo and Gampaha suburbs. The generated power will be sold to the state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board at a rate of Rs. 37.10 per KWh generated. The remaining bottom ash resulting from the process would be used for road construction and other purposes, while the unusable fly ash residue (amounting to 2%) being disposed at locations already identified.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Two waste-to-energy plants to get off the ground today". Daily FT. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  2. "Sri Lanka to kick off solid waste plants with USD193 mln investment". Lanka Business Online. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.


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