Ottawa, Canada

Plasco Demonstration Facility, Ottawa, Canada

Capacity: 100 tonnes-per-day

Plasco Energy Group Inc. entered into a partnership with the City of Ottawa, Canada, in April 2006 for the construction of a commercial-scale evaluation and demonstration municipal solid waste conversion facility at the City’s Trail Road Landfill site.

The demonstration facility has a very small footprint (three acres) and was built on existing landfill space. The facility is permitted to convert 85 tonnes of solid waste per day to energy using Plasco’s conversion technology. At that rate a net amount of 4 MW of electricity—enough to power 3,600 homes—will be fed into the Ontario energy grid.

Construction was completed in June 2007 and commissioning began in July 2007 with the first processing of surrogate waste occurring on July 19, 2007. There are no air emissions from the processing of waste into synthetic gas and only minimum (well below the Ontario regulated limits) air emissions from the power generation process. The facility is designed to operate on a 24-hour basis, 340 days per year with a two-year permitted operating term.

For more information, please visit the project’s citizen engagement website at www.zerowasteottawa.com