Landfill gas to feed Scottish energy grid
A council in Scotland has come up with a smelly way of generating clean electricity.
Scottish Borders Council will use methane from the Easter Langlee Waste Disposal site near Galashiels to create enough green electricity to power more than 1,000 homes, while cutting annual carbon emissions by the equivalent of around 30,000 tonnes.
The project takes away the local authority’s burden of controlling and disposing of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide. At the same time it has the capacity to generate up to 1.0MW of clean power for the national grid.
The landfill gas generation scheme has been designed, developed, financed, and is operated by Manchester-based sustainable power group ENER-G.
The 15-year contract could create a significant income for Scottish Borders Council as well as cost savings in infrastructure at the site. The savings in carbon dioxide emissions is equivalent to the Council planting three million trees.
The site has been capped with plastic to prevent methane escaping into the atmosphere and wells have been drilled to transfer gas to a compact generator unit where the electricity conversion process takes place.
Scottish Borders Council will use methane from the Easter Langlee Waste Disposal site near Galashiels to create enough green electricity to power more than 1,000 homes, while cutting annual carbon emissions by the equivalent of around 30,000 tonnes.
The project takes away the local authority’s burden of controlling and disposing of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide. At the same time it has the capacity to generate up to 1.0MW of clean power for the national grid.
The landfill gas generation scheme has been designed, developed, financed, and is operated by Manchester-based sustainable power group ENER-G.
The 15-year contract could create a significant income for Scottish Borders Council as well as cost savings in infrastructure at the site. The savings in carbon dioxide emissions is equivalent to the Council planting three million trees.
The site has been capped with plastic to prevent methane escaping into the atmosphere and wells have been drilled to transfer gas to a compact generator unit where the electricity conversion process takes place.
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