Energy from biomasses: perspectives for the Province of Torino

The Provincial Solid Waste Management Policy establishes that in 2012, at the start-up of the first incinerator plant of Torino (421000 t of MSW), 80000 t of source separated organic waste shall be treated in anaerobic digestors. In this way the biogas combustion shall enable the production of 22284 MWhe/y. A revision of the strategy that turns composting in a post treatment of anaerobic digestion may raise the electricity production from biological source to 59888 MWhe/y. This amount may be increased by the use of livestock effluents which have a potentiality of 330613 MWhe/y on provincial basis, more or less the one of the incineration plant. A further increase may come by the use of energy crops that may be cultivated in the 20277 hectares of agricultural land unused at the moment.