Waste to Energy Project Feasibility

Summary: Pre-feasibility study for the development of a waste to energy plant in Ghana

Date: April 2014

Details:

The client was a Dutch company that wanted to build an $80 million renewable energy plant in Ghana to generate 20 Megawatts of electricity from municipal solid waste at Ghana’s largest landfill site. We were asked to perform the initial feasibility quick scan and some pre-development work to set up the construction of this energy plant in Ghana.

Our achievements included:

• A review of the entire waste supply chain, looking into waste volumes, waste composition, waste management practices and regulations, key players in the sector, existing landfill locations and social attitudes to waste management
• We then looked into electricity production and prices, feed in tariffs, licensing and permitting requirements for IPPs
• Financial modelling and sensitivity analysis for such a plant in Ghana using assumptions based on local conditions
• Brokering a public-private partnership between our client and the local government (Tema Metropolitan Assembly),