Gauteng will inject R10 billion into Waste to Energy (W2E) projects.
Panyaza Lesufi, Premier of Gauteng, said plans for facilities are gaining traction in Midrand, Thembisa and Centurion.
Speaking at the State of the Province Address, on Monday evening, Lesufi said the plants would use multiple technologies including biogas, incineration, composting and green hydrogen.
The province currently has W2E in Bronkhorstspruit, a 28-Megawatt facility which is a Bio2Watt plant.
Another in Ekurhuleni, is a landfill gas-to-electricity project, using technologies like pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and landfill gas extraction.
Elsewhere in the country, other similar projects are the New Horizons plant in Cape Town, launched on the 25 January 2017, by a partnership between the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), and partners- Clean Energy Africa, WasteMart and Afrox.
The IDC provided 60% funding towards the R400 million plant. Another amount (half) was provided by KfW, the German Development Bank as a Green Fund.
Another is a Bio2Watt plant near Malmesbury, a biogas waste-to-energy facility located at the Vyvlei Dairy farm. It processes manure from the farm’s 7,000 cows and other local organic waste to produce renewable electricity.
There are also small- scale waste-to- energy projects in Limpopo, including biogas projects in rural communities, supported by the University of Venda, and a recent pilot project for e- waste collection in the Thulamela Local Municipality.
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We will bring you more on similar projects to be discussed at Africa’s Green Economy Summit, starting on Wednesday, the 24th – 27th February, in Cape Town.