Technology designed and built in Manchester is being used to provide homes in Mexico with electricity produced from rubbish dump gas.
ENER-G, whose headquarter is in Salford, have been appointed as renewable energy specialists to the Mexican Municipality of Celaya.
The company are investing £1.5million in the landfill gas generation project which will capture methane gas emitted from millions of tons of waste and convert it into one megawatt (MW) of renewable energy, enough to power 1,000 homes.
Hugh Richmond, Managing Director of ENER-G Mexico, said: “This is our third renewable energy venture in Mexico and we are pleased to partner with the Municipality of Celaya to open the new biogas generation facility.
“We will design and build the facility and manage operation and landfill gas monitoring over the 15 year contract.
“We congratulate the municipality on its vision and commitment to clean energy.”
The facility is expected to begin power generation towards the end of 2013 and is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 40,000 tons CO2 equivalent per year, equivalent to carbon saving benefit of 29,744 acres of forest.
ENER-G’s other Mexican projects include a partnership with the Municipality of Aguascalientes to open a 2.45 MW landfill gas generation facility at the San Nicolás landfill site in Aguascalientes, supplying green power to Nissan.
The company is also set to open a 1.5MW facility in partnership with the Municipality of Durango.
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