landfill gas project News

Turning landfills into community assets and cutting greenhouse gases

EPA today recognized the accomplishments of numerous landfill methane partners that are generating renewable energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the 11th Annual Landfill Methane Outreach Program Conference & Project Expo in Washington, D.C., EPA gave recognition awards to government and private organizations that are helping the agency deliver energy and environmental benefits ...

Jan. 10, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Clean Energy Projects Turn Landfills into Community Assets

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the accomplishments of numerous landfill methane partners who are generating clean, renewable energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 'Across the nation, EPA is helping transform landfill waste into energy wealth,' said Bill Wehrum, acting assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. 'We are ...

Jan. 24, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Energy projects transform trash to green power / landfill gas projects protect health while fueling industry and job creation (HQ)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized six landfill methane capture projects and partners for their innovation in generating renewable energy and protecting the climate and people’s health by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EPA has assisted with more than 490 landfill gas energy projects over the past 16 years, transforming waste into a green community asset. ...

Jan. 19, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

IFAT CHINA 2008 – Exploiting the energy potential of landfill gas

No. 06/e March 2008 IFAT CHINA 2008 – Exploiting the energy potential of landfill gas The gases arising in decomposition processes in landfill sites contribute to the greenhouse effect and also present a substantial health hazard. On the other hand they are often rich in methane and therefore a potential energy source. In China there is still considerable potential for generating electricity and ...

Apr. 9, 2008

By Messe München GmbH

FirmGreen gets project of the year recognition from US EPA

FirmGreen, Inc. (FGI) was recognized today at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) annual conference with a Project of the Year Award for its Green Energy Center (GEC). The high Btu landfill gas utilization project, located near Columbus, Ohio is a public-private partnership with the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO). “From the ...

Jan. 13, 2009

By FirmGreen, Inc.

Clarke Energy wins Growth Award

Clarke Energy’s Irish operations have won a growth award in recognition of delivering the best regional growth performance within Europe for GE’s Jenbacher product. John Curley stated: ‘We are delighted to win this award which demonstrates that, although there have been recent challenging times in Ireland, there is still a drive to invest in quality equipment for the generation ...

Dec. 5, 2013

By Clarke Energy

North Carolina’s renewable energy production initiatives get a boost from GE

North Carolina’s renewable energy production initiatives recently received a boost with the formal opening of a new landfill gas-to-energy plant in Durham, the state’s fourth largest city. Built by the landfill gas project developer Methane Power Inc., the energy plant is powered by three of GE’s (NYSE: GE) containerized and ecomagination-approved, JGC 320 Jenbacher landfill gas engines. GE’s ...

Dec. 17, 2009

By General Electric

Blue Sphere Receives Approval From The Government of Ghana for Implementation of the First of its Landfill Gas-to-Energy Projects in Africa!

Blue Sphere Corp. (OTCBB: BLSP) (the "Company" or "Blue Sphere"), a company in the Cleantech sector as a waste-to-energy and clean energy project integrator, is pleased to announce that it received earlier this week approval from the Government of Ghana for implementation of its first African landfill gas-to-energy project at the Oti Sanitary Landfill in Ghana. The Oti project is to be the ...

Dec. 7, 2012

By Blue Sphere Corporation

Veolia Environnement Begins Operations at its Wisconsin Hickory Meadows Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project

Veolia Environnement North America (VENA) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to mark the commencement of operations for its new landfill gas-to-energy project (LFGTE) at the Veolia ES Hickory Meadows Landfill, located in eastern Wisconsin. State, community and business leaders gathered at the project site to recognize the environmental and economic benefits of ...

Aug. 16, 2011

By Veolia

Raytheon Green Lights Renewable Energy System

Raytheon Company will soon give the green light to a renewable energy solution that turns waste into electricity. Raytheon plans to power five of its North Texas facilities, in part, with electricity generated by methane gas produced as a natural byproduct of landfill decomposition. It will “turn on the renewable light” at a ceremony scheduled for ...

May 25, 2011

By Raytheon Technologies Corporation

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. Announces Solution That Extends Life of Landfill Gas Energy Projects

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced an initiative to extend the life of landfill gas energy projects. Biomass gasification can extend the life and value of these energy-producing assets through on-site production of gas for existing gas engines and transmission grid connections. The ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution produces synthesis gas that is suitable for blending with landfill gas to operate ...

Mar. 17, 2011

By ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc

Greenlane Renewables wins biogas upgrading contract in California, US

Canadian biogas firm and CBA member Greenlane Renewables has won an $8.3 million biogas upgrading contract for a landfill gas to renewable natural gas (RNG) project in California. The company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, secured the contract with the customer whose name has not yet been revealed. Engineering work will begin immediately on the project ...

Jan. 3, 2020

By Candadian Biogas Association

Georgia’s Largest Landfill Gas to Electricity Project Opens in Taylor County

Energy Development, Limited (ASX ENE), parent company of Nashville based Energy Developments, Inc. (EDI), Green Power EMC and Veolia ES Solid Waste, Inc. today announced the completion of the expansion of EDI’s Landfill Gas to Electricity plant located on Veolia’s Taylor County Landfill in Mauk, Georgia. Renewable power generated from this facility ...

Jun. 27, 2012

By Veolia North America, Industrial Business

Bord na Móna’s Drehid Landfill Gas Power Plant Officially Opened

Following Clarke Energy announcing the award of the contract for Bord na Móna’s Drehidlandfill gas power plant the facility was officially opened on the 7th April 2014. The Irish Minister of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, was there to formally inaugurate the project at the landfill site. The Irish Drehid landfill facility opened in 2008 to manage up to ...

Apr. 8, 2014

By Clarke Energy

WM expands renewable energy program to develop landfill gas-to-energy project

Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WMI) has announced that it plans to use its expertise as the nation’s largest developer of landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) projects to partner with private and municipal landfill owners to develop the country’s untapped landfill gas resources. Waste Management is the first in the waste management industry to launch such a program. Waste Management’s third-party LFGTE ...

Oct. 16, 2008

By Waste Management Inc.

Siemens and Southern Idaho Solid Waste Announce Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project

Siemens and Southern Idaho Solid Waste (SISW) recently announced the successful commissioning of two SGE-56HM gas engines that are providing environmentally friendly electrical power for a landfill gas-to-energy project at the Milner Butte Landfill in Burley, Idaho. Siemens' gas capture engines are helping to convert 1,000 tons of landfill waste daily into energy but SISW officials expect that ...

Oct. 3, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

GE Enables Mississippi’s First Landfill Gas-to-Electricity Project to Support Region’s Grid

With Mississippi looking to produce more domestic energy from renewable resources, government officials, utility and GE (NYSE: GE) representatives gathered today at the Golden Triangle Regional Landfill in northeastern Mississippi to mark the commercial start-up of the state’s first landfill gas-to-electricity (LFGTE) project that will support the regional ...

Oct. 11, 2011

By General Electric

Waste used to energise the Irish Economy with renewable power, jobs and growth

Clarke Energy has signed a contract with Bord na Móna to deliver a landfill gas power plant at the Drehid Landfill site in the Republic of Ireland. This power plant will help to stimulate the economy utilising landfill gas that originates from household waste to produce renewable power and create jobs. Jobs creation: Up to 25 jobs will be supported during the plant’s construction ...

Apr. 10, 2013

By Clarke Energy

Vectren Announces $500 Million Plan For Energy Grid Modernization

Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana - South (Vectren) announced on Feb. 22 a robust electric infrastructure improvement strategy the company intends to undertake over the next seven years to modernize its electric grid that delivers power to more than 144,000 southwestern Indiana homes and businesses. The electric system improvements include upgrades to portions of Vectren's network of ...

Mar. 7, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

Biogas East & Midwest

LANDTEC will be attending Biogas East & Midwest in Chicago, IL. Following successful leading biogas events in Austria, Belgium, the UK and the USA (San Francisco), Biogas East & Midwest 2011 will take place in Chicago to leverage the huge potential of landfill gas and growing farm/co-digestion AD projects in WI, NY, PA and neighboring ...

Jun. 22, 2011

By QED Environmental Systems, Inc

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