ENER-G seals second Mexican deal
GREEN energy group ENER-G is expanding its international business with a £2.3m investment in a landfill gas management facility in Mexico.
The Salford company as been appointed by the Municipality of Durango to design, finance, build and operate the £2.3 million biogas power generation facility.
The plant will capture methane gas emitted from 1,000,000 tons of waste at the Durango city landfill site and convert it into 1.5MegaWatts of clean energy in its initial power generation stage.
The clean power generated is sufficient to provide the municipal government with half of its street lighting for the city.
The facility is expected to begin power generation this summer and it will reduce CO2 emissions by 64,000 tons per year.
The Durango project is ENER-G’s second in Mexico – the company, in partnership with the Municipality of Aguascalientes has opened a landfill gas generation facility at the San Nicolás landfill site in Aguascalientes.
The company has invested £4.5m in the project, which is supplying 2.475 megawatts (MW) of clean energy to car manufacturer Nissan.
Hugh Richmond, managing director of ENER-G Natural Power, said: “We are looking forward to working with the Municipality of Durango to open the new biogas generation facility.
“The project will be funded entirely by ENER-G and we will pay royalties to the Municipality. We have ambitions to build more of these plants in Mexico to match the strong desire and commitment by the Mexico Government for investment in renewables.”
