A WATER company has finished work on an innovative project that will turn Kidderminster's sewage into power.
The Severn Trent Water project, which cost £517,000, will convert methane gases from the waste, in the town's sewage works, into electricity.
The sewage works deal with up to 34 million litres of waste every day from more than 100,000 people.
Peter Doughty, Severn Trent Water's power generation manager, explained how the system worked.
He said: "The heat and power that is generated through the process is sufficient to export additional power to the grid and generate the equivalent amount of power to supply around 1,000 homes with electricity."
He added: "As well as Kidderminster, we also convert gas at some of our other larger sewage works across the Midlands."
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