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

People in Lithuania will soon be plugging into `green' electricity generated by renewable power technology from the engineering group.

The municipality of Alytaus in southern Lithuania will be able to generate 1 MW of electricity from its waste disposal facility - making it the third area in the country to convert environmentally unfriendly landfill gases into electricity. It follows similar contracts in the capital city, Vilnius, and at Klaipeda on the western Baltic coast.

Construction at Vilnius and Klaipeda will be completed this year.

ENER-G's modular engine system uses methane to power internal spark ignition engines with a capacity of one to three megawatts which generate electricity that is fed into the local grid.

ENER-G then manages the extraction of gas from the site and provides an income in return.