Chinese Enterprise Receives World's First CDM Approval for Waste-to-Energy Project

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--At the 51st meeting of the executive board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) held recently in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Controlled Combustion of Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Sludge and Energy Generation Project in Shaoxing City of the Zhejiang province received consent to register subject to satisfactory corrections, according to an announcement of China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation (CECIC) (Beijing) on the website of the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission on December 5, 2009.

This is the first waste-to-energy CDM project to receive approval from the executive board for registration under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Successful registration of the project could serve as a guideline and reference for other similar waste-to-energy projects that have been registered under the CDM, said CECIC in its announcement.

As reported, the Controlled Combustion of Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Sludge and Energy Generation Project could achieve harmless utilization of urban life garbage and sewage sludge of Shaoxing City in an effective way. The project has received approval from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top planner of China, as a renewable energy power generation project. Of which, the comprehensive utilization of sewage sludge has been listed by the NDRC as a demonstrative project with financial support from national debt.

The project is at Mashanwan, Hehu Village of Baojiang Industry Zone in Shaoxing City, and is to be built and operated by Shaoxing Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Development Company Limited (Shaoxing, Zhejiang), a subsidiary of CECIC, in phases. Processing capacity of Phase I will be 1,200 metric tons of life garbage and 1,000 metric tons of sewage sludge per day. Total investment of Phase I will be about $80 million. Upon completion, the project eventually will have the capacity to process 3,000 metric tons of solid waste per day, and the annual reduction in CO2 emission will be about 180,000 metric tons.

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