Chinese investor plans trash-fueled power plant for Jakarta City

A Chinese investor is looking into the possibility of developing a steam power plant in Jakarta using the city?s waste matters as fuel, Kompas daily reported on Wednesday.

The project would not only help ease waste dumping problems in Jakarta City, but also was expected to produce 60 megawatts of electricity for the capital, the newspaper quoted as saying Dou Zhenggang, president director of China?s Hangzhou Jinjiang Group. Dou made a presentation about their plans at the central office of state electricity firm PLN.

Dou said the project could be completed within one and half year. It would be located in Marunda in northern Jakarta, he added.

He said garbage would be the main fuel for the power plant, and that coal would also be used.

Dou said an average of 6,400 tons of garbage were collected in Jakarta daily, of which 65 percent was organic waste.

China had built garbage-fueled power plants, Dou said.

Hangzhou Jinjiang Group had planned to sign on Wednesday a memorandum of understanding with the Jakarta City administration on the power project. (*)