UAE landfill website to host 120MW solar

• Very first stage of Emirates Waste to Energy Company's project will certainly finish in 2023

A Masdar-backed business is establishing a 120MW solar project on a landfill site in the United Arab Emirates (UAE.

Emirates Waste to Energy Company, a joint venture in between Bee'ah and also Masdar, will certainly create the renewable resource plant in addition to Bee'ah's Al Sa' jah landfill, near the Sharjah Waste to Energy facility and also Bee'ah's waste administration complex.

The solar landfill project will be provided in three stages, with the first phase due for completion in 2023.

The agreement was announced jointly by Khaled Al Huraimel, team CEO of Bee'ah as well as chairman of the Emirates Waste to Energy Company, and Masdar CEO Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi.

Al Ramahi claimed: "Waste is a growing concern in the Gulf Cooperation Council area.

" However, this project highlights how we can utilize shut landfills to supply tidy power, while simultaneously sustaining the UAE's tidy energy targets and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

" We are certain that this project can become a benchmark for various other landfill sites in the area."

Locating effective uses for closed landfills is a global sector issue due to rigid environmental monitoring as well as remediation requirements that can occupy to 30 years.

Redeveloping the landfill right into a solar farm will contribute to Sharjah's renewable resource generation, and it is likewise economically and also eco useful, said Emirates Waste to Energy Company.

It will certainly be accountable for the financing, design, procurement as well as construction.

Under the terms of the lease agreement, operation and maintenance solutions will likewise be given by the company for a 25-year period.