By Joanne Chianello, Ottawa Citizen, June 2, 2014
Ottawa’s very own Plasco Energy Group and Montreal-based Enerkem have quite a
bit in common. They’re both homegrown waste-to-energy companies and use
super-high heats to turn garbage into a synthetic gas, or “syngas,” that is then
converted to energy — electricity in Plasco’s case and biofuel for Enerkem.
While that technological description is a huge oversimplification, it’s fair to
say the two companies occupy a similar specialized sector. And they certainly
compete for the same municipal clients, promising to reduce significantly the
amount of city trash that’s sent to the landfill.The two companies even have
similar contracts with their respective cities, which are pledging to pay in the
$85-per-tonne range to have their non-recyclable garbage turned into energy. And
both cities are expecting to deliver around 100,000 tonnes of trash to their own
waste-to-energy companies. via
Chianello: Plasco won’t be first to market with commercial waste-to-energy
plant | Ottawa Citizen.