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WA PREMIER TOURS NEW-GENERATION WASTE TO ENERGY [W2E] PLANT IN TOKYO WITH Phoenix Energy Aus
Tokyo, Japan/Melbourne, Australia – March 7, 2011 – Phoenix Energy Australia, a waste 
to clean energy [W2E] company licensed to deploy new-generation Westinghouse and Mitsubishi technology, will today accompany Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett on a tour of a modern W2E plant in Tokyo.
Phoenix Energy Australia Managing Director Peter Dyson will join the Premier and the Hon. Phillip Edman, MLC WA, on a tour of the Ariake Waste to Energy Plant in Tokyo to see the Mitsubishi technology at work.
Ariake Waste to Energy Plant Manager Toshiaki Tanaka and Section Head Osamu Nakai will lead the tour of the plant, which is located in a residential area in Tokyo.
Phoenix Energy Australia has an exclusive license agreement for the Westinghouse Plasma Gasification system in Australia and New Zealand and represents Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co in Australia for a number of projects.
Dyson said both technologies are the world leaders in their respective fields in W2E.
“There are currently more than 900 W2E plants of this type in operation around the world, but none in Australia as yet,” said Dyson.
Phoenix Energy Australia is talking with municipal councils and State Governments interested in the W2E technology to reduce landfill pollution and generate clean energy cheaper than coal fired power stations.
On average each garbage bin put out on the kerb each week contains enough energy to provide 14% of the household’s electrical energy needs for a week.
The W2E plants comply with new European Environmental Standards with sophisticated pollution control systems – a combination of filters, scrubbers and catalytic reactors.
Phoenix Energy Australia is involved in the proposed Kwinana Project outside Perth and is one of the approved respondents to the forthcoming Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (EMRC) Resource Recovery Facility proposed at the Red Hill landfill.
“In order for Australia to meet its renewable energy target of 20% by 2020, renewable technologies such W2E are crucial,” said Dyson.
“Traditional landfills take up valuable land space and have been criticized for their groundwater discharges and methane emissions. W2E plants could eliminate these problems by reducing the need for landfill by over 90%.”
Dyson said councils were keen to consider W2E solutions with landfill being an increasingly challenging alternative, made even more prohibitive if a price on carbon is established.
Key features of a Phoenix Energy Australia W2E plant are:
- Global best practice in plant design
- Production of base-load renewable energy
- Overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
- Up to 90% reduction in landfill
- Up to 60% local content in construction
- Up to 800 jobs during construction
- 60 full time jobs ongoing
About Phoenix Energy Australia www.phoenixenergy.com.au
Phoenix Energy Australia Pty Ltd. is an alternative energy company with a focus on the conversion of waste products to create clean energy. Phoenix Energy Australia’s sophisticated thermal Waste to Energy [W2E] technology includes mass combustion and plasma assisted gasification. Phoenix Energy Australia represents in Australia and New Zealand the leading Westinghouse and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co Waste to Energy technologies.
Waste to Energy plants also reduce greenhouse gas emissions, eliminate landfill methane emissions and decrease our energy reliance on oil and coal-fired power-stations. The facilities are one of the lowest emitters of high temperature processes with output gasses significantly lower than the European Environmental Standards, thanks to pollution control systems – a combination of filters, scrubbers and catalytic reactors.
One tonne of municipal solid waste [MSW] processed in a thermal W2E plant rather than landfilled reduces greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1 tonne of carbon dioxide, and the renewable energy derived reduces reliance on oil by one barrel or 0.25 tonnes of coal.
After the introduction of Maximum Available Control Technology (MACT) regulations implemented in the 1990s by the US EPA and European Environment agencies, the US and European WTE industry invested in retrofitting pollution control systems and has now become one of the lowest emitters of high temperature processes.