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METHANE FROM TWO DELAWARE LANDFILLS WILL POWER 4,500 HOMES

By Anonymous
Publication: In Business
Date: Jan/Feb 2007 2007

Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA) officials announced a deal whereby methane from its landfills in Kent and Sussex counties will be used to produce 7.4 megawatts of electricity or enough to power 4,500 homes. The gas will be converted to electricity via seven generators to be operated by Framingham,

Massachusetts-based Ameresco. Constellation Energy will purchase the electricity under a 10-year agreement. Under Delaware law, power providers are required to have 10 percent of their energy portfolio from renewable resources by 2019. DSWA Chairman Richard Pryor noted that producing that amount of electricity at a power plant would use more than 1,500 rail cars of coal and create about 60,000 tons a year of greenhouse gases.

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