New 4.3 MW Landfill Gas Project to Expand in Brazil

01 November 2011

A new 4.3 MW landfill gas to energy project which has recently entered service at Asja Brasil's Belo Horizonte landfill site in the state of Minas Gerais is to be expanded.

Asja Brasil, a subsidiary of the Italian multinational Asja Group, is managing the project to capture and recover the Belo Horizonte sanitary landfill's waste gas for the next 15 years.

The Horizonte-Asja consortium project, which began commercial operation in February 2011, claims to support Brazilian government's initiatives to increase the production of electricity from renewable sources and reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by between 36.1% and 38.9%% by 2020.

The developers say that the project has been certified as a clean development mechanism (CDM) project - a carbon credit program established under the Kyoto Protocol.

The project currently features three 1.4 MW GE ecomagination-qualified J420 Jenbacher gas engines, and Asja is further expanding the project with a fourth J420 Jenbacher gas engine to produce a total of 5.5 MW by the end of 201 - enough energy to supply an average Brazilian city of more than 60,000 people.

Electricity from the facility is being supplied to the local grid, supplying power which GE claim would require more than 12 million cubic meters of natural gas to generate in an average U.S. natural gas-fired power plant.

"This venture will be responsible for reducing the equivalent of 4 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, besides electrical energy cost savings for the city," comments Enrico Maria Roveda, an Asja manager in Brazil.


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