The KCHT Power Station is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at Muthurajawela in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It is being constructed together with the

Aitken Spence Power Station The Aitken Spence Power Station (formerly referred to as the Meethotamulla Power Station) is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at Muthurajawela, Sri Lanka. It was originally planned to be built at ...

, after it won the bid by the Urban Development Authority from a pool of 121 bidders, 19 of which were foreign. Construction of the facility began on and will cost approximately , with an estimated completion slated for mid-2019. The power station will be operated by , a subsidiary of the South Korean company . It will use of waste from the Colombo and Gampaha suburbs. The generated power will be sold to the state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board at a rate of generated. The remaining

bottom ash Bottom ash is part of the non-combustible residue of combustion in a power plant, boiler, furnace or incinerator. In an industrial context, it has traditionally referred to coal combustion and comprises traces of combustibles embedded in formin ...

resulting from the process would be used for road construction and other purposes, while the unusable

fly ash Fly ash, flue ash, coal ash, or pulverised fuel ash (in the UK) plurale tantum: coal combustion residuals (CCRs)is a coal combustion product that is composed of the particulates (fine particles of burned fuel) that are driven out of coal-fired ...

residue (amounting to 2%) being disposed at locations already identified.

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