Why CHO-Power?

Waste and biomass are potential energy sources which are currently underutilised.

230 million tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incinerated each year in Europe*, and significant amounts of biomass from agricultural and forestry sources are not used to their full advantage.

Furthermore, the energy and environmental challenges we face mean that it is essential to transform these underutilised resources into clean, reliable electricity.

However, current energy recovery processes, such as incineration and anaerobic digestion, do not achieve the required level of electrical efficiency and regularity, or face local opposition.

CHO-Power provides a response to these pressing needs with its plasma-enhanced gasification process which:

effectively transforms any type of non hazardous waste (from the least prepared waste to the most elaborated biomass)
by producing clean and reliable electricity in a local and continuous manner.

*Eurostat 2008 data