Landfill Gas Project To Be Largest In Georgia
Green Power EMC, a Georgia cooperative, recently agreed to purchase the power generated by the expansion of an existing landfill gas project owned and operated by Energy Developments, Inc. in Taylor County, Georgia. The plant will be expanded from MW to 8 MW, making it the largest landfill gas to electricity facility in Georgia. The expansion is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011. Landfill gas, which is created by the decomposition of organic materials in landfills, is about 50 percent methane and can be converted to generate electricity by being burned in a combustion unit that drives a generator. Such conversion projects are especially beneficial in light of the fact that landfill gas would otherwise be managed as a waste product, since landfill gas that is released into the atmosphere instead of being burned becomes a pollutant associated with global warming. Read More »Landfill Gas Project To Be Largest In Georgia