Metro Vancouver Waste to Energy Plant Loses Key Customer

Metro Vancouver's garbage incinerator in south Burnaby will need to upgrade its system to generate steam into electricity for sale to the power grid. In the past the plant sold 1/3 of its steam to a single customer - an adjacent industrial plant which is now shutting down. The upgrades to the incinerator will cost around $4.2 million to turn all of the steam it generates into electricity. The incinerator burns 285,000 tonnes of garbage per year. Selling steam was more lucrative than selling electricity, so the conversion will cut into Metro's revenue.

 

This is the same plant that recently made headlines for it's part in a regional government plan to incorporate an 8 kilometer pipeline to carry hot water heated at the waste-to-energy plant to the Parklane Homes development, also known as the East Fraserlands.

 

 

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