The Almeria city council has given the go ahead to Cespa, part of the Ferrovial group of companies, to spend 15 million euros on modernising the city's rubbish plant and adapt it for the production of energy from organic waste. The council has also extended the company's contract to collect the city's rubbish, originally awarded three years ago, from fifteen to twenty years. The council pays Cespa 4.5 million euros per year for rubbish collection and disposal.
The modernisation of the plant will involve the automation of rubbish classification and separation, the construction of a new area for the recycling of recovered plastic sub-products and the enclosure of the area where the organic waste undergoes a biological fermentation process, called biomethanisation, from which biogas is obtained. It is estimated that 1.5 megawatts will be generated from this biogas, 20 per cent of which will be used to power the plant and the other eighty being sold to the power company Endesa. The automation of the plant will mean a reduction in the number of workers needed there but part of the agreement with the council was that these workers would not lose their jobs but instead be transferred to other jobs in the company.
Works are due to begin at the end of this year and should be completed by the end of 2009.
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