With 78 million tonnes of food waste generated each year, Latin America and the Caribbean have the highest carbon footprint of any developing region as regards food waste. However, this organic waste can be converted into energy.
By converting its waste into energy, Belize, a Central American country, wants to reduce its dependency on imported electricity. The Belizean government entrusted Seureca with a study to assess the feasibility of this project by using cogeneration technologies or organic by-product biomethanization.
Our solution
Seureca’s mission was to:
- assess the possibility of cogeneration from locally available organic waste;
- identify potential sites to build a cogeneration plant;
- assess the technical feasibility of the project according to the operational environment, configuration of the system and chosen technologies, the siting study, the regulatory, legal, political, and institutional frameworks, and the environmental and social impacts.
The pre-feasibility report and executive summary were presented and discussed with stakeholders at three workshops.
GENERAL STUDIES
