A conventional plant sells electricity and pays to dispose of the rest. An integrated facility is designed to turn one waste stream into a range of saleable commodities, so no single market carries the business. The volumes below are for the Sint Maarten facility at steady state; they scale with the size of the waste stream.
Hydrogen from the syngas runs gas engines for continuous baseload power, unlike weather-dependent solar or wind. At Sint Maarten the design exports around 9.8 MW net under a twenty-year fixed-price agreement, covering 15 to 20% of the island’s electricity.
Contracted rate per kWh — held
The client said $0.38 variable; Revision 5 states $0.23/kWh as the PPA rate, with $0.38 likely the retail or avoided-cost rate. The difference is roughly $12M a year in stated revenue, so no rate goes on the page until this is settled.
The plant can also supply hydrogen directly as a utility, so the customer generates their own power or heat. This is the chosen model on the island projects.
Rather than vented, CO2 is captured and liquefied to food and beverage grade. The Caribbean currently imports this by ship at high cost, which gives a clear regional and export market.
At Sint Maarten: 2,500 tonnes a year for the local market, and around 18,500 tonnes for regional Caribbean export, alongside smaller volumes to the French side and the premium Leeward islands
The process also recovers zinc, sulfur and salt in saleable quantities, modest individually but part of the same point: the design routes each stream to a buyer rather than to landfill.
Price and volume — held
Staged across two phases and still feasibility-stage. The client needs to confirm which stage the public site describes.
Deliberately no figure here
The study values this at around 20% of total revenue, but the rate is tied to specific European pathways, it is the figure most likely to be challenged, and it dates fastest. This is a decision, not an omission — do not add a number later without checking with Jack.
The plant also charges a tipping fee, as any disposal facility does. Design intent: at or below what the municipality pays today, so the city saves on disposal while the facility earns from commodities.
Tipping fee — held
The client said $50 to $75 per tonne; Revision 5 models $50. Awaiting confirmation of whether $75 is a negotiating ceiling.
