Metro Clark Waste Management Corp (MCWM), the country’s leading waste management company, looks forward to breaking ground on a pioneering waste-to-energy (WTE) project.
The first of its kind in the Philippines, the secondary fuel power plant is part of an integrated waste management system that will help to address the severe shortage in waste disposal capacity in Central Luzon.
The project is a 50/50 joint venture between Metro Clark and Plambeck-Emirates Global Renewable Energy LLC, a partnership between a German technology firm and the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi. The consortium has more than fifty years of combined experience in all aspects of waste management, spanning both developed and developing markets across the globe, and will also provide the funding for the entire $200-million project cost.
The WTE project will be built on Metro Clark’s existing 100-hectare site located in the Clark Special Economic Zone in Central Luzon, under the jurisdiction of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA). The system will serve the entire Region 3, providing municipal solid waste transfer, treatment, and disposal services to LGU’s and industrial clients in the entire area, as well as producing up to 35-megawatts of power that can be fed back into the region’s distribution grid.
With Metro Clark’s planned system in place, up to 70 percent of waste that would find its way into the landfill, would be used as fuel for the WTE plant. The reduction in waste going into the landfill will expand the lifespan of Metro Clark’s 20-million-tons waste facility for at least another 50 years.
