The plant, which uses gases from the Mides landfill as its main raw material, has an initial average generation capacity of 6MW.
"The landfill handles more than six million tons of solid waste, and the AES plant has installed 3000 meters of piping to extract the gases from garbage,” reads an article on Elmundo.com.sv.
Hector Dada, El Salvador’s Minister of the Economy, said the new plant will help the process of diversifying the country's energy mix, "We don’t want to remain as dependent as we are currently on sources of energy derived from oil.”
Source: elmundo.com.sv
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June 2010
AES will develop the country’s first methane gas power plant.
Works are scheduled to begin on July 7, starting operations on early 2011.
Luis Pérez, manager of the project AES Nejapa, told Elsalvador.com that “this is a modest plant, which will initially generate 6MW, but has enough technical capacity to eventually output 24MW”.
November 2010
The $43 million plant is the first powered by natural gas in El Salvador, and will begin operations in April 2011.
The plant, first of its kind in Central America, will have a generating capacity of 6MW to start, expanding in the future to 24MW.
Abraham Bichara, president of AES El Salvador, told Elsalvador.com that "AES Nejapa will be launched at an estimated cost of $ 43 million.
March 2011
Implemented by company "Industrias de Biogás", the project will potentially generate 4 Megawatts.
Developed at a landfill in Zone 3 of Guatemala City, 120 wells will extract Methane from the landfill in order to produce the electricity.
"The landfill in Zone 3 receives about two thousand tons of garbage a day, and what is expected is for this project to produce an average of 70 thousand tons of carbon dioxide per year during the period 2012-2016,” reported Prensalibre.com.
May 2008
Carbon Trade, a British company, aims to produce enough electricity to supply 600 homes from the methane produced by a trash dump in Guatemala.
Christian Siliézar, Carbon Trade's manager for Latin America, said the company had been granted a 25-year concession to use gas from the Las Periqueras dump on the Pacific Coast to generate about one megawatt of power.
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