Turning biogas into energy has proved successful and replicable using an astounding technology installed and operated by WEC Projects. This has the potential to save Johannesburg Water millions of rands, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to conserve both water and energy.

While most South Africans have been drawn into the recent controversy over faecal defacement of Cecil John Rhodes’ Cape statue, many remain unaware of the history being made using the same medium at Johannesburg’s sewage treatment plants.

Since the 1980s, local project teams have attempted to create biogas-to-energy systems but all fell short on the success criteria of bankability – let alone repeatability.

Recently that’s changed: local water and wastewater treatment company WEC Projects has demonstrated, without doubt, that turning wet waste into electricity and heat energy can be achieved.

The result is tangible, ongoing financial benefits at the Johannesburg Northern Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) in Diepsloot.

Following the Northern WWTW’s successful operation for more than two years, the Driefontein works in Muldersdrift is now ready to follow suit.

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