Nicholas Ning/ Shanghai Daily news

A landfill site in suburban Shanghai will be turned into a wind energy farm capable of supplying power to more than 100,000 households a day when all of the turbines are in place, Shanghai Daily reported.

Construction on the first phase of the wind power plant will kick off soon as the project's two builders signed an agreement yesterday to install 15 turbines at the Shanghai Laogang Landfill Plant in Nanhui District on a 40,000-square-meter site near the coast.