The City of Cape Town says it is about to sign an agreement with the Central Energy Fund that will enable it to produce income-generating electricity from methane gas in its landfill sites.
At present the gas escaped into the atmosphere and contrbuted to global warming, mayoral committee member for utility services Clive Justus said on Tuesday.
It could instead generate significant amounts of "green" electricity to be fed into the national grid.
This had become more lucrative because the National Electricity Regulator had recently published very favourable tariffs for supplies generated by bodies other than Eskom.
In addition to the revenue from the sale of electricity, income could be generated by selling carbon credits.
A pre-feasibility study on the project had been completed and an environmental impact assessment had begun.
Sapa
