Masdar, Abu Dhabis renewable energy company, is to develop a cutting-edge waste-to-energy plant in Sharjah in partnership with Beeah, it was announced at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2017.
Diverting as much as 300,000 tonnes of solid waste from landfill each year, the project will help Sharjah reach its zero waste-to-landfill target by 2020 and the UAE deliver on its 2021 goal of diverting 75 percent of solid waste from landfills.
Masdar and Beeah signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the development of new energy projects at ADSW 2016. The facility will incinerate up to 37.5 tonnes of solid waste per hour to create 30 megawatts (MW) of energy. This will add more power to what is produced by Bee’ah’s auxiliary waste-to-energy project, which will eventually produce a total of 90 MW and will be supplied to the Sharjah electricity grid.
Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO of Beeah, said: Today marks the first venture in the realisation of the partnership that we announced with Masdar last year. The cutting-edge Waste-to-Energy plant in Sharjah is a concrete example of what this strategic partnership will deliver to the UAE and the communities that we serve.
Beeah collects approximately 2.3 million tonnes of waste from nearly one million households in Sharjah each year, diverting around 70 percent of its collected waste to its recycling waste management facilities from landfill.
Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, Chief Executive Officer of Masdar, said: With GCC countries having among the highest rates of per-capita waste production in the world, sustainable waste management solutions are both critically important and a clear business opportunity.
Masdar will combine its proven expertise in renewable energy project development over the last ten years with Beeahs track record in environmentally responsible waste management, to deliver a project that will catalyze further investment in waste-to-energy infrastructure in the UAE and beyond.
Masdar is adopting waste management best practices in the development of Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, where its construction waste management demonstration project reuses and recycles waste building materials from the Citys construction sites.