Consultancy cooking on gas

Published Date: 27 April 2009

AN environmental consultancy has helped develop a methane gas extraction system for Africa's biggest landfill site.
SLR, which has an office in Edinburgh, connected a site in Durban to the South African national grid system. It will now help support 8MW of electricity generation – enough to power the equivalent of 5000 homes in the developed world.SLR's landfill gas team also assisted Durban's eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality to register the scheme with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).SLR associate Grant Pearson, said: "As well as providing technical expertise, a key part of our role was to provide support to keep the project moving forward and to ensure that the environmental, social and financial benefits of the scheme could be realised."