‘Rotten egg gas’ from Western Sydney recycling facility to be converted into renewable electricity
Journalist Tony Ibrahim with ABC News recently published a detailed article on the Eastern Creek landfill. The piece highlights the partnership between LGI and Bingo Industries to capture gas on the site, using it to power a 4-megawatt generator.
The “rotten egg” gas from a Western Sydney landfill that led to hundreds of complaints from neighbours and a successful court prosecution will be among the gases piped into a generator and converted into renewable electricity.
Bingo Industries has formed a partnership with Australian company LGI, which will spend up to $18.5 million building the power generator plant, and it will run it around the clock for at least 15 years.
Construction of the power generator plant is scheduled to be finished by June, but there are already plans to expand it by adding batteries and increasing its capacity.
The Clean Energy Regulator said there are 55 registered sites currently using gas from their landfill to generate renewable electricity across Australia — 13 of them in NSW.
“The opportunity is to contribute some positive, hopeful solutions in an area where we are so used to getting just bad news,” Dr Newman said.
“We’ve got an example here where an Australian company is showing us how to do something sensible with waste.”
Read the full article here.
This story was also covered on ABC Sydney Morning Radio.
