Welcome to zerowasteottawa.com, the web destination for the City of Ottawa and Plasco Energy Group partnership to evaluate PlascoEnergy’s exciting technology to process garbage into electricity. The facility will process up to 85 tonnes per day of unsorted municipal solid waste and generate electricity to power the entire process and approximately 3600 Ottawa households. Most importantly, the facility will be clean, safe and critical in our fight against climate change.
The early part of the year was a very busy time at Plasco Trail Road. In February we continued gaining experience running with MSW diverted from the Trail Road Landfill. We continued to gain experience in both handling raw MSW and feeding it into the conversion chamber. In March we had a two week maintenance shutdown where we successfully installed some new equipment that enables us to feed the MSW faster into the system. April brought a time of increased operations and we were able to reach our processing rate of 75 tonnes per day, our regulatory limit.
A number of visits will occur early in May by representatives of communities in discussion toward agreement for PlascoEnergy facilities. In late May we expect to schedule our first source testing in compliance with our Certificate of Air. The Plasco Trail Road Public Advisory Committee will be asked to meet once the source testing data is available. As always, we continue to post our weekly emissions here on this website and are very pleased with the results we have achieved.