ENER-G has landed a hat-trick of landfill generation contracts in the Baltic state of Lithuania – supplying enough renewable electricity to power 5,500 homes.

Energy users in Lithuania will soon be plugging into 5.5 MW green electricity - generated by renewable power technology from the UK engineering group’s Natural Power business.

The latest project will enable the municipality of Alytaus in southern Lithuania to generate 1 MW electricity from its landfill waste disposal facility – becoming the third area in the country to convert environmentally unfriendly landfill gases – 21 times more harmful to the environment than C02 – into electricity.

This follows similar contracts with the Regional Waste Management centres in the capital city of Vilnius and Klaipeda on the western Baltic coast.

Construction of the Vilnius contract for a 3MW landfill gas generation project and 1.5MW landfill gas generation operation for the Waste Management Centre of Klaipeda will be completed later this year.

ENER-G Natural Power Managing Director Hugh Richmond met recently with the Lithuanian Minister of Environmental Protection, Gediminas Kazlauskas, to tell him about the ENER-G group’s activities in his country and he was delighted to hear about the technology, skills transfer and the creation of employment in the energy/environmental sector. ENER-G’s capital investment of more than £5 million in the three sites is said by the Lithuanian government to be among the highest to be made in the country by a British business.

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“This is an auspicious start to our activities in Lithuania, which hopefully will extend to other offerings from the ENER-G group, not just in Lithuania but also the other Baltic countries of Latvia and Estonia,” said Hugh Richmond.

ENER-G further underscored its growth in north eastern Europe this Summer with the opening of new offices in Poland. Situated on the third floor of a modern new building in Warsaw, the new premises comprise 280 square metres of office space and accommodate 20 people.

The move has added ENER-G’s combined heat and power, and energy management technologies and services to the company’s ongoing landfill gas generation operations. ENER-G began operations in Poland six years ago and has grown its Polish business organically, from start-up to a highly successful company with a turnover of 85 million zloty (£20 million) this year and 30 employees.

Work will start on the Alytaus landfill development later this year, with some generation expected by the end of 2009.

“All contracts involved competitive tendering so we are very proud of the fact that we have successfully competed in this market,” said High Richmond.

ENER-G is the UK’s leading independent landfill gas generation company – producing in excess of 120MW of biogas in the UK and the rest of the world and growing exponentially. It also applies its technology to mines gas and anaerobic digestion, with a number of high profile projects.