Charah Solutions awarded contract from AECI to recycle fly ash

Charah Solutions Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, announced that it has been awarded a five-year sales and marketing contract from Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI), a power generation and transmission cooperative operating in three Midwest states.

As part of the contract, Charah will provide the sustainable recycling of fly ash, bottom ash and boiler slag from AECI’s Thomas Hill Energy Center.

AECI is owned by and provides wholesale power to six regional and 51 local electric cooperative systems in Missouri, southeast Iowa and northeast Oklahoma that serve 935,000 members. The Thomas Hill Energy Center is a 1,153-megawatt coal-fired power station located in near Clifton Hill, Missouri.

Charah Solutions will be responsible for the beneficiation and utilization of approximately 150,000 tons per year of specification grade Class C fly ash, non-spec Class C fly ash, bottom ash and boiler slag through 2026. The byproducts will be distributed through Charah’s MultiSource materials network, a distribution system of nearly 40 nationwide locations which provides a continuous and reliable supply of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to cement and concrete producers as well as other customers who beneficially reuse the products.

It is anticipated that a majority of the ash will be shipped via truck within a 200-mile radius of the plant’s location with remaining product sold into encapsulated beneficial use applications in the greater Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan regions.

“Charah Solutions is nationally recognized in the power generation industry as a total solutions company, providing unparalleled service and innovation in a sustainable manner to meet the evolving and increasingly complex needs of our utility partners,” said Scott Sewell, Charah Solutions president and CEO. “We are delighted to partner with AECI to manage their ash marketing needs at Thomas Hill while supplying our concrete producers with the high-quality material they need.”