Perú: «Huaycoloro Landfill Gas Recovery Project»

The landfill on which the project will be developed is a private property and has an area of 1,575 hectares. Nowadays, this landfill receives about half of the MSW of the city of Lima. Up to the moment Huaycoloro is 11 years old and has accumulated 5.7 million tons of MSW and nowadays receives 2,500 tons of daily MSW. Currently, the landfill does not have a system of gas collection, which is not needed by law. It only has some wells for security reasons and a small portion is flared with little supervision and control. The project consists of the installation of a methane collection and flare system, to be placed in the cells of Huaycoloro’s landfill.

Baseline Scenario

Which emissions are the proposed Clean Development Mechanism CDM project displacing?
Methane emission will be destroyed through a collection and flare system, to be placed in the cells of Huaycoloro’s landfill. Through this process the methane turns in CO2, producing a reduction in the GWP since CO2 has 21 times less GWP than CH4.
What would the future look like without the proposed CDM project?
Nowadays the landfill does not have a system of gas collection, which is not needed by law. It has only some wells for security reasons and a small portion is flared with little supervision and control.
In Peru, according to its legislation and business as usual practices, without the project, Huaycoloro landfill will continue emit methane to the atmosphere, increasing its generation as the MSW increase.
What would the estimated total greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction be with the project?
It has been estimated that only by the process of methane flaring and therefore its transformation to CO2, the project would reduce 4,251,755 tCO2e in a period of 14 years.

Current Status

Earliest project start date
The construction of the project is planned to begin on June 2005. The operation is assumed to start in 2006.
Estimate of time required before becoming operational
6 months
What is the project lifetime?
30 years
Current status or phase of the project eg: which of the following phases have been completed:
• The Project have a letter of intention with the World Bank, and it could sign the ERPA in May
• Pre - feasibility study made by the World Bank
• PDD in process
• A letter communicating the intention to develop a CDM projects has been already send to the Designated National Authority on CDM
PETRAMAS, the owner company of Huaycoloro Landfill, has received already many proposals to develop a Landfill Gas recovery projects. These proposals are still under evaluation and that even included the finance of the project.

Estimated Emission Reductions

Annual: an average of 303,697 tCO2e

• Up to and including 2012: 2,006,318 tCO2e
• Up to a period of 10 years: 2,701,040 tCO2e
• Up to a period of 7 years: 1,680,583 tCO2e
• Up to a period of 14 years: 4,251,755 tCO2e

Project Benefits

• The principal effect is the decrease of pollution at local and global level, which would not happen in absence of the project. The local pollution affects the health of the nearby population.
• The sale incomes of CER’s will allow the company to make sustainable the operation and maintenance of units and infrastructure adopted for the collection, transfer and final disposition of solid waste. It will allow attending the demand of the municipalities with minor resources, which up to the date deposit their residues in the public via or in clandestine places. This will improve the wellbeing of some of the poorest areas of the city.
• In addition it will allow realizing complementary investments, as ovens for toxic waste elimination that would use, as a fuel, the methane generated in the landfill.

Project Participant and Financing

Total project cost estimate:
• Development costs US$ 200,000
• Installed costs US$ 1,800,000
• Total project costs: US$ 2,000,000

Sources of finance to be sought or already identified:
• Equity: The Invest will be financing only with capital. Petramas is evaluating a capital and operator partner.
• Carbon finance contribution sought: it is expected that the project would be financed with the guaranty of CER’s sale.

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