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Under the contract, the consortium, through its project company TuasOne, will develop the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant, which will be the country’s sixth of its kind, with an investment of approximately S$750m ($537.8m).

TuasOne will assign the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work for the project to a subsidiary of Hyflux.

Additionally, MHI’s Singapore subsidiary Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI-AP) and MHI’s Japan unit Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental and Chemical Engineering (MHIEC) will supply incineration facility and power generation equipment for the facility.

MHI-AP is a MHI subsidiary in Singapore, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental and Chemical Engineering (MHIEC), a wholly owned MHI subsidiary based in Yokohama, Japan,

TuasOne is 75% owned by Hyflux while the remaining stake is held by MHI.

In addition to generating 120MW of electricity per day, the plant will have municipal solid waste (MSW) processing capacity of up to 3,600 tons per day (tpd) using stoker furnace type incinerators.

Construction work of the project is planned to commence in early 2016 and be completed in the first half of 2019.

NEA CEO Ronnie Tay said: "NEA has put in place an integrated waste management system to uphold high standards of public health while ensuring cost-effectiveness and affordability and minimising land uptake.

"Even as we continue to construct new waste-to-energy plants, Singaporeans can help by practising the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) to reduce waste and contribute towards a more sustainable long-term solution."

The consortium will operate, manage and maintain the facility for a period of 25 years.


Image: Officials after signing the waste-to-energy services agreement. Photo: courtesy of Hyflux.