Gas Recovery in ChinaThe Landfill Gas Facility uses the accruing landfill gas, which occurs through the decay of organic material, to generate electricity. Project developer is the „Everbright Environment and Energy Suzhou Landfill Gas to Energy Co. Ltd.“. The Landfill Gas Facility gathers the emerging gases (methane) of the landfill site which are burned in a block heating station. The generated energy is supplied to the local grid to meet the strongly growing national energy demand. Hence, this facility has a share in safeguarding the supply with electricity. The utilization of a waste product to generate electricity is a reasonable alternative instead of burning coal, whose part in China’s electricity generation is above 80%.
According to examined details of the constructor of the facility average 23,314 MWh of electricity are produced in the facility every year. This corresponds with an average estimated annual CO2-reduction of 136,794 tons of CO2. The project is listed as a Gold Standard project.
How does gas recovery contribute to climate action?Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted by many processes including livestock farming, waste management, sewage treatment, oil production, and coal mining. When released into the atmosphere, it oxidises first to carbon monoxide and then to carbon dioxide, making it a major contributor to global warming. Climate projects avoid these emissions by capturing the gas and using it to generate heat or electricity, or by processing the gas into dry and liquid gas. In this way, the gas is not released into the atmosphere and is used to generate energy instead. Gas recovery projects in the ClimatePartner portfolio are registered with
international standards.
