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Photography: Susannah Sayler of the Canary Project 2008
© 2009 Climate Change Capital Limited.
The GE Jenbacher gas engines pictured are part of the 20 MW Infinis methane power station located at Brogborough landfill gas site, Bedford, UK. The site, which is about the size of 250 football pitches and is 70 metres at its deepest point, was capped in 2007. The decomposing organic matter beneath it emits methane which has a global warming potential 20 times greater than carbon dioxide.
Rather than emit the methane into the atmosphere more than 550 “wells” drilled into the clay draw the gas from the site, filter it and burn it to generate enough electricity to light 26,000 homes.
In 2007, CCC co-advised Infinis, a Terra Firma portfolio company, on the £80m acquisition of the UK landfill gas generator Re-Gen from Summerleaze.
