Energy recovery

In 2008, SITA UK produced more than a million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity from waste - enough to power nearly 220,000 homes for a year.

SITA UK is a growing producer of energy, generating electricity from landfill gas as well as the combustion of waste, and – as of 2008 – the UK’s first waste management company to produce biomethane transport fuel.

We have three energy-from-waste facilities located in Kirklees, Tees Valley and the Isle of Man. In 2008, our portfolio of energy-from-waste facilities produced 483,524 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity.

Combined with the 550,201 MWh produced through our landfill gas to energy schemes, our total electricity output was more than a million megawatt-hours (MWh) - enough to power nearly 220,00 homes for a year.

SITA Power, our division dedicated to energy generation, now operates 36 landfill gas generation schemes and a biomethane fuel plant. In 2008, SITA UK captured more than three quarters (77 per cent) of the total amount of methane estimated to have been produced at our landfill sites – including those that have closed.

See how energy-from waste facilities and landfills work.

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