Overland Park, Kansas based engineering consulting firm Black & Veatch has been selected by South African renewable energy developer, MBHE African Power (PTY) Ltd, to provide technical assistance for the country’s first waste to energy plant.
The was to energy plant is to be located in the Drakenstein Municipality, near Wellington in the Western Cape and is expected to generate 10 MW of power for the national grid.
Black & Veatch said that for its part it will provided engineering services including fuel characterisation, front-end engineering and design (FEED), and tender support for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), operations and maintenance contracts.
The waste to energy project is planned to divert up to 500 tonnes of MSW per day from landfill, reducing the waste volume by 90%.
“This landmark project will play a critical role in boosting power supply and available electricity to households,” commented Webb Meko, managing director at Black & Veatch sub-Saharan Africa.
“Partnering with MBHE on this project will help address an increasingly critical waste management challenge facing the community,” added Karen Daniel, chief financial officer and executive leader of Black & Veatch’s Sub-Saharan Africa growth initiative.
“The completed project will address this issue while also providing a sustainable energy solution to meet growing electricity demand.”
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) awarded MBHE a grant as joint developer in the public-private partnership that includes the Drakenstein Municipality and Interwaste (Pty) Ltd, a local South African waste management company.
Black & Veatch added that the project supports Power Africa, a U.S. government led initiative to increase access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by adding more than 30 GW of cleaner, more efficient electricity generation capacity and 60 million new home and business connections.
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