Dump gas powers up to 500 homes in Cork city

Gas from a former dump is generating enough electricity to power up to 500 homes.

Dump gas powers up to 500 homes in Cork city

Cork City Council says it has become the first local authority in the country to acquire a special licence to generate electricity in its own right at the city’s former Kinsale Road landfill.

It has spent some €40m remediating the site which opened in 1963 and which accepted an estimated 3.5m tonnes of domestic waste until it ceased landfilling operations in 2009.

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