Séché Environnement and Waga Energy have launched a production unit at the site of Opale Environnement, a subsidiary of the Séché Environnement group, in Sainte-Marie-Kerque (Pas-de-Calais).

Thanks to WAGABOX® technology, developed and patented by Waga Energy, this innovative facility recovers the gas spontaneously emitted by landfill waste in the form of biomethane, a renewable substitute for fossil natural gas. Its production is injected directly into the local gas network to supply homes and businesses.

The WAGABOX® unit at Sainte-Marie-Kerque can process 800 m3/h and produce up to 35 GWh of biomethane per year (depending on the concentration of methane in the raw gas), equivalent to the consumption of around 5,500 homes. It will make it possible to avoid the use of fossil natural gas, representing the emission of 5,800 tonnes of eqCO2 per year into the atmosphere.

Maxime Séché, CEO of Séché Environnement: ' This biomethane production unit is an illustration of the Séché Environnement group's commitment to the circular economy and the ecological transition of territories and industries. It is in line with the Group's decarbonization strategy presented in February 2022, whose ambition is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2030'.

Mathieu Lefebvre, Chairman and CEO of Waga Energy: 'Thanks to WAGABOX® technology, the Sainte-Marie-Kerque site becomes a biomethane producer, and now supplies the region with local, decarbonized energy'.

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