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6 November 2006 -- WSP Energy has secured registration from the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (a United Nations body), for a biogas-to-energy project in South Africa. The project will create a WSP Energy-owned Independent Power Producer at a petrochemical refinery and be co-financed by the generation and sale of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), which will be traded on the international emissions market.
WSP Energy said that low electricity prices in South Africa mean that there has been little incentive to tackle inefficient practices, and the biogas at the state-owned PetroSA refinery in Mossel Bay has been flared since the inception of the plant 19 years ago. The WSP Energy project will harness this energy, generating electricity from three 1.4 MW GE Jenbacher engines that will run on the biogas that had previously been flared. The electricity will be sold back to PetroSA and used onsite to power the refinery.
The project is the first in South Africa to use carbon finance, as made possible by the Kyoto Protocol, to generate renewable energy.
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