Garbage turns into Electricity in Nepal

After years of continuous effort, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has finally succeeded in generating electricity from waste for the first time in Nepal.The KMC office said the first test conducted at Teku transfer station to generate electricity from waste on Sunday was successful.

Though the technical team had already produced biogas from waste before Dashain, electricity production took two more weeks.”Our project has become a success,” Gyanendra Karki, spokesperson at the KMC office, told The Himalayan Times, adding, “Now all that remains is the official inauguration of the project.”

He informed that the official inauguration programme will be organised after Tihar. KMC said that the 14 kilowatts of electricity generated by the waste-to-energy plant in Teku will be used by the KMC office.

Chief of the environment division of KMC and Director for the PISSWM Project Rabin Man Shrestha said this was part of the KMC’s attempt to produce electricity in a sustainable manner. The waste-to-energy plant equipment arrived in Kathmandu in three separate heavy trucks on August 28 that headed from Pune of India on July 26.

According to the KMC office, the three machines cost Rs 18.20 million. The KMC plans to replicate the project in other municipalities if the one-year pilot project succeeds. “Other municipalities have expressed their interest in the project, so the KMC is thinking of replicating the programme in other municipalities,” said KMC Spokesperson Karki.

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