Keppel opens Waste-to-Energy plant for Singaporeans

The new Keppel Seghers WTE Plant has the capacity to treat 800 tonnes of solid waste a day to generate more than 20MW of green energy for Singapore’s energy supply.

Keppel Integrated Engineering Ltd (KIE), the environmental technology and engineering arm of Keppel Corporation Limited, officially opened Singapore’s newest Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant, the first to be built under the National Environment Agency (NEA)’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative, a Keppel report said on Wednesday.

The new plant is the first incineration plant in Singapore to showcase WTE technology from a local company, and also one of the most compact WTE plants in the world.

KIE, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Seghers Engineering Singapore Pte Ltd (Keppel Seghers), designed and built the WTE plant incorporating Keppel Seghers’ combustion grate and flue gas cleaning proprietary technologies, and will operate and maintain the plant for 25 years under a contract awarded by the NEA.

Together with the Senoko WTE Plant, which Keppel Seghers also operates, Keppel will treat close to half of Singapore’s incinerable waste.

Mr Michael Chia, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KIE, said, “Occupying only 1.6 hectares, the Keppel Seghers WTE Plant is designed to effectively support NEA’s aim of building a sustainable quality environment in land-scarce Singapore, incorporating many space-saving and technologically advanced features.”