KCHT Power Station
The KCHT Power Station is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at Muthurajawela in Sri Lanka. It is being constructed together with the Aitken Spence Power Station, after it won the bid by the Urban Development Authority from a pool of 121 bidders, 19 of which were foreign. Construction of the facility began on and will cost approximately, with an estimated completion slated for mid-2019.
The power station will be operated by, a subsidiary of the South Korean company. It will use of waste from the Colombo and Gampaha suburbs. The generated power will be sold to the state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board at a rate of generated. The remaining bottom ash resulting from the process would be used for road construction and other purposes, while the unusable fly ash residue being disposed at locations already identified.
