Using sewage gas to make electricity is not limited to large cities.

Sewage gas was used by the Victorians to light their street lamps and cars have been running on liquefied petroleum gas for many years.

Plumbing pipes also remove waste in the form of sewage, and allow venting of sewage gases to the outdoors.

Regardless of the size, generators may run on gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane, bio-diesel, water, sewage gas or hydrogen.

Jenbacher engines run on natural gas, landfill gas, sewage gas, biogas, mine gas, coal gas and syngas.

Renewable energy encompasses wind, biomass (such as landfill gas and sewage gas), hydropower, solar power (thermal and photovoltaic), geothermal, and ocean power.

Though first isolated from the soil it has also been observed causing biogenic sulfide corrosion of concrete sewer pipes by altering hydrogen sulfide sewage gas into sulfuric acid.

In the UK, sewage gas electricity production is tiny compared to overall power consumption - a mere 80 MW of generation, compared to 70 GW on the grid.

Loncin was the only Liège fort to be provided with mechanical ventilation, allowing gun and sewage gases to be evacuated, and improving its combat endurance until debris blocked the exhaust.

In 1959, it opened a new type of power plant using waste sewage gas that powered eight turbines at Britain's biggest sewage works at the Northern Outfall Sewer at Beckton in east London.