GE’s biogas engines to power three Turkish landfill power sites

• 7 years ago (2017-08-25)
• David Flin

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GE’s Distributed Energy has announced that it is providing its Jenbacher biogas engine technology and its myPalnt Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions for three new landfill power production sites in Turkey. The sites will be owned by ITC, the largest landfill gas power producer in the country. These power production sites will help Turkey achieve its goal of increasing renewable energy sources and digitalisation, as part of the country’s economic development strategy.

Erdoğan Göğen, General Manager for ITC, said: “The organic part of our new landfill gas-powered facilities contains vegetables, fruit, and garden waste, and comprises more than 50 per cent of the household waste of the cities of Antalya, Esksehir, and Alanya. In total, the three facilities will process 1,387,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste annually from the surrounding households. Similarly, our current site at Ankara uses the heat in the greenhouse of the Mamak Integrated Solid Waste Management facility to grow tomatoes and strawberries.”

The three new landfill gas power facilities will converst organic waste into biogas that can be used to generate renewable electricity and heat. The biogas produced will be used to fuel four of GE’s Jenbacher J420 biogas engines at Eskisehir, nine at Antalya, and three at the Alanya landfill sites, which are configured to generate 22 MW to the national grid.

The equipment will be built at GE’s Distributed Power facility in Jenbach, Austria, and they are expected to enter service during the second half of 2017.