บริษัท อีเมค จำกัดร่วมกับผู้ถือหุ้นจากหลากหลายธุรกิจ จัดตั้ง บริษัท จีเอฟอี เอ็นเนอร์ยี่ บาลานซ์ จำกัด เพื่อการลงทุนในการประกอบธุรกิจประเภทการก่อสร้างโรงไฟฟ้าพลังงานขยะ

โดยวันที่ 24 กันยายน 2564 ที่ผ่านมา คุณสุรเดช บัวทรัพย์ กรรมการผู้จัดการ ได้เป็นตัวแทนเข้าเซ็นสัญญากับบริษัท เมโทร เอ็นเนอร์ยี่ จำกัด เพื่อก่อสร้างโรงไฟฟ้าขยะอุดรธานีไพโรไลซิสออยล์ (UWTE Power Plant) โรงไฟฟ้า 

GFE Energy Balance and Metro Energy to
construct Thailand’s first power plant using
pyrolysis technology

Udon Thani facility to utilse pyrolysis technology
to turn plastic waste into fuel

Metro Energy Co, a local sales arm of US-based
machinery manufacturer Caterpillar Inc, is going
ahead with the construction of Thailand’s first
power plant that usespyrolysis technology in
Udon Thani to turn plastic waste into fuel and
help curb greenhouse gases.

Under the pyrolysis technique, discarded plastic will be heated at high temperatures to produce gaseous fuel, which will be then be used in an electricity generating process.

Veera Burapachaisri, managing director of Metro Energy Co, said the technology best suits Thailand as it can help reduce plastic waste.

Thailand is among the top six countries in the world blamed for discarding plastic waste in the ocean.

He said the gaseous fuel-fired power plant project, which already went through a public hearing, can also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions amounting to 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year.

Metro Energy Co yesterday signed a contract with GFE Energy Balance Co which will build a 9.6-megawatt power plant, worth 710 million baht.

Electricity will be sold to the state power distribution arm, Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA).

The facility was originally scheduled to start construction in 2019, but it was delayed due to lockdown measures imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The plant, now under construction, is expect to operate in August next year, said Mr Veera.

He said the company is planning to build another three waste-to-energy (WTE) power plants using pyrolysis technology, but declined to give further details.

Metro Energy Co has developed the first pyrolysis-based power plant after it was granted permission from Udon Thani Municipality.

The facility will be built near a waste separation plant in the municipality which has operated for two years.

The power plant is aimed to help officials dispose of 300 tonnes of daily solid waste in the municipality where its landfill has nearly reached full garbage burying capacity.

Plastic waste will be sorted for the pyrolysis process while biodegradable kitchen waste will be turned into fertiliser and other types of garbage will be converted into refuse-derived fuels.

The power plant is among 45 WTE power plant projects, with 217MW in total capacity. Up to 35 of them, with combined capacity of 151MW, already operated, said Chutinat Limpananwadi, chief of PEA’s alternative energy department.

Source: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2185643/gfe-metro-energy-ink-plant-deal