Gas to Energy from Vermont's Second Largest Landfill

Date: March 21, 2008

Source: News Room

PPL Renewable Energy of Allentown, PA will develop and operate a landfill gas to energy plant at Vermont's second largest landfill in Moretown. The landfill is owned and operated by North East Waste Services which is now part of Highstar Holding Corp. By fall, methane from the landfill will power diesel generators to generate electricity that will be sold to Green Mountain Power. PPL currently has landfill three gas-to-energy projects in Pennsylvania including with the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority of Lebanon, PA (3.2 MW), the Frey Farm Landfill in Lancaster, PA (3.2 MW), the Northern Tier Landfill in Burlington, PA (800 kW), and two projects in New Jersey including the Pennsauken Renewable Energy Park (2.8 MW), and the Cumberland County Improvement Authority Landfill (4.8 MW).

The Moretown plan builds on the small but growing number of methane conversion facilities in Vermont. In 2005, the Washington Electric Coop spent $10 million to build a 6.4-megawatt waste-to-electricity facility in Coventry, at the state's largest landfill.

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