K-Electric interested in generation from solid waste

Garbage transfer stations could be used as well, says SSWMB MD.

KARACHI: K-Electric has expressed interest in installing a plant to generate electricity through solid waste at the Dhabeji landfill site managed by the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB).

A delegation of the entity, comprising of its senior officials in a meeting with SSWMB Managing Director Roshan Ali Shaikh on Friday, said that a pragmatic approach was needed to address the issue of power shortages.

Seeking support of the SSWMB, they said that power generation through waste is a strategy adopted in different parts of the world as an alternate means of producing electricity.

“It is time that all concerned departments and organisations coordinate and cooperate with each other to overcome the energy crisis affecting almost all sections of society,” said a K-Electric official.

SSWMB’s Managing Director Roshan Ali Shaikh, appreciating the proposal, said the board has constituted six updated garbage transfer stations across the metropolis that, besides increasing cleanliness in the city, could be used to extract energy to fulfil the ever-increasing demand of Karachi.

He added that there is further facilitation of the scheme through provision of composing plants and disposal furnace plants. Shaikh agreed that the landfill site, spread over an area of 3000, is emerging as one of country’s most popular treatment sites, which can be used as a spot for electricity generation.

He also mentioned that under the initial scheme, a mini-forest would also be developed at the site with 40% of Karachi’s waste transported and efficiently disposed-off.

The participants of the meeting hailed measures being planned to give Karachi a green and clean look with added provision to turn itself sufficient in power generation. 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th,  2015.

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