The world's largest waste-to-energy plant in China by 2020

2016-03-20 2016-03-20T23:59:20Z
ختام عامر
ختام عامر

ArabiaWeather.com - Khitam Amer - The Chinese city of Shenzhen is currently seeking to establish a waste-to-energy plant, which will be the largest of its kind in the world, by burning about 5,000 tons of waste per day.

This process is expected to convert more than a third of waste into electricity by 2020.

“Waste-to-energy facilities are a way of dealing with waste as well as using the process to generate electricity as a by-product,” says Chris Hardiek of the Danish architectural firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen.

Cities should certainly move more towards recycling and reducing waste - in addition to developing more renewable energy sources. This is what we are trying to achieve by proposing to make this facility the first plant to generate energy from waste equipped with what is necessary to benefit from renewable energies.”

Hardy points to the fact that the station's large rooftop, which will stretch 1.6 kilometers (one mile) in length, will be equipped with about 44,000 square meters of solar panels.

This plant is a solution to China's existing garbage problem and a source of clean and sustainable electricity generation at the same time.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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