GOOD NEWS - UPDATE - Boosting green energy at Nelson Hospital.

You will be interested to know Nelson Hospital is utilising 30% of the gas from the combined NCC/TDC owned York Valley Landfill. The gas is piped to the Nelson Hospital and used as an energy source to fire the 2.0MWth boiler located at the hospital. The boiler produces over 60% of the hospital’s thermal energy demand for heating, steam and hot water.

To further improve our environment a new enclosed flare has been installed at the York Valley Landfill & is running well, having combusted 768,000 m3 of landfill gas since December last year.

The old York Valley flare has been moved to Eves Valley & been installed.

The Eves Valley flare is estimated to be combusting 175 m3 per hour of landfill gas.

Measurements of the gas removed from the Eves Valley landfill show a methane content of between 65% and 70% methane.

Based on the data available the Eves Valley flare is removing around 13,750 tonnes of CO2 equivalent from being discharged to the atmosphere - which is the equivalent to reducing car travel by 81 Million Km.

Cutting methane emissions is key to slowing global warming, isn't it?