About Us
Kwinana Energy Recovery (KER) is a practical solution to significant community challenges:
1. Disposing of non-recyclable waste away from landfill
2. Providing additional secure baseload renewable power
Located in the heart of the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, Kwinana Energy Recovery will use world-class technologies to process 460,000 tonnes per year of residual non-recyclable waste, significantly reducing CO2 emissions and delivering 38MW of baseload electricity to the grid. These outcomes are the equivalent of taking 85,000 cars off Perth’s roads and powering 50,000 Perth households every year.
KER will receive non-recyclable waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill, occupying valuable productive land and producing a range of harmful greenhouse gases. KER will use tried and tested moving grate combustion technology already operational in more than 2,000 similar energy recovery facilities around the world.
KER believes energy recovery can act as an essential and integral part of a larger urban non-recyclable waste management strategies and systems, as the process of Recovery complements the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse & Recycling) that underpin most modern non-recyclable waste management strategies.
Once fully commissioned, Kwinana Energy Recovery will not only process non-recyclable waste for energy recovery, it will produce ash by-products which are used internationally for construction materials, and recover over 6,000 tonnes per year of recyclable metals not normally recovered by other means.
As Australia’s first Energy Recovery, we are leading the way in removing harmful and toxic waste from landfill.
Objectives
Kwinana Energy Recovery is built and owned by Spanish infrastructure and renewable energy company ACCIONA, with the development and operations supported by technology provider Keppel Seghers,and waste management company Veolia.