SINGAPORE shone at the annual Asean Energy Awards in Vietnam on Thursday, winning five awards, four of which clinched top honours in their categories.
Paisajistas (Compendio de horticultura) (Spanish Edition)
Home-grown firm Eco Special Waste Management, which won top prize in the Renewable Energy Project off-grid category, impressed judges with its Tuas sludge incineration plant - a first in Singapore and also in South-east Asia.
Horticultura Herbacea Especial (Spanish Edition)
The plant, which began operations last year and cost $35 million to build, burns sewage sludge from Singapore's water reclamation plants as fuel, which produces thermal energy that is recaptured to dry the sludge and turn it into a fertiliser.
The process drastically reduces Singapore's daily sludge waste of more than 500 tonnes from going into a landfill, eliminates methane production and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 100,000 tonnes annually.
Eco's director of business development Danny Tay told The Straits Times the firm was 'glad to receive recognition for its work', and that it was also in the final stages of getting approval from the United Nations to earn carbon credits for the plant.
If approved, it will be Singapore's second carbon credit-generating project after mainboard-listed EcoWise's plant, which converts Singapore's wood and horticultural waste into energy
