landfill gas system News
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Republic Services Continues Its Commitment To Planet-Friendly Operations
Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG), one of the nation's largest recycling companies, is committed to employing the best environmental practices as it expands the Company's recycling operations. Recycling plays a critical role in creating a sustainable future and Republic is proactively expanding and modernizing its infrastructure across the U.S. so more people and communities can participate ...
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GE’s Distributed Power Teams with Clarke Energy to Help Biffa Modernize U.K. Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plants
GE Power & Water’s Distributed Power business (NYSE: GE) today (May 5, 2014) announced Clarke Energy, GE’s authorized Jenbacher gas engine distributor for the United Kingdom, has been selected to supply U.K. waste management company Biffawith eight of GE’s Jenbacher landfill gas engines as part of a modernization of several landfill gas-to-energy (LFGE) plants across the ...
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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 ...
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GE’s Distributed Power Teams with Clarke Energy to Help Biffa Modernize UK Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plants
Biffa to Replace Older Generators with GE’s More Efficient Jenbacher Landfill Gas Engines Clarke Energy to Install GE’s Jenbacher Gas Engines at Several Landfills across United Kingdom New Units Will Produce a Total of 8.5 MW of Renewable Energy, Enough for 20,000 Homes GE Power & Water’s Distributed Power business (NYSE: GE) today announced Clarke Energy, GE’s ...
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINS METHANE TO MARKETS PARTNERSHIP
WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2007 (ENS) - An international partnership to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas methane expanded today as the European Commission joined the United States and 19 other countries in finding ways to promote the recovery of methane and its use for energy. The primary component of natural gas, methane accounts for 16 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Dow, City of Midland and consumers energy announce power agreement for energy from landfill gas
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) today announced a power purchase agreement with the City of Midland (The City) and Consumers Energy where natural gas created by the city's landfill will be used to generate electricity to power Dow facilities in its hometown. Recapturing the landfill gas, which would ordinarily escape into the atmosphere, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than ...
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Canada Ready to Unleash Power of Biogas
The news that Canada saw a 50% increase in operational biogas capacity over the last decade is great news for both the economy and the environment, as is the strong outlook for future development contained in the latest report from the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA). The news was contained in the Canadian 2020 Biogas Market Report¹, published in October 2021. In it the CBA revealed that ...
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Nextgen Conference 2013 and EBEC
The Nextgen Conference and Exhibition will be taking place between the 9-13th of October 2013 at Stoneleigh Park in England. Nextgen includes the European Bionenergy Conference (EBEC). Nextgen is the UK’s largest and most established event for bioenergy and renewable energy generation. In 2012 it attracted over 3,200 farmers, landowners, specifiers, consultants, local authority ...
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Plessis Gassot Landfill Gas Power Plant
Clarke Energy replied to a call for tenders launched in 2009 by the Véolia Propreté group, who wanted to replace their steam turbine and three steam boilers installed on the ISDND plant in Plessis Gassot. Veolia will to implement a larger and more electrically efficient system for landfill gas treatment and thus increase its energy generation (from 12 MW to 17 MW). A delivery team, ...
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Plessis Gassot, Landfill Gas District Energy Scheme Opening
Electr’od demonstrates the principle of circular economy. The system transforms non-recyclable waste from municipalities and commercial operations into renewable energy (electricity and heat) which is then re-used by those same local citizens and companies. Developed by Veolia, in cooperation with Dalkia and Clarke Energy, Electr’od was launched today by Bernard Harambillet, CEO of ...
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Schneider Electric to Help Enable Energy Resiliency at USMC Logisitics Base
Schneider Electric recently announced it has been awarded a subcontract from Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., to support the development of smart controls as part of an energy savings performance contract at the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia. Energy security and resiliency is a priority for military installations tasked with keeping personnel safe through ...
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EPRI Selects GBB for an Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy Power Plants
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) announced today that a detailed engineering and economic evaluation for the use of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as fuel in the generation of power utilizing various conversion technologies and parameters has been initiated for the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) after being selected through a formal procurement process. The ...
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Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany in Albany, Georgia Earns ENERGY STAR Carbon Pollution Reductions, Energy Savings
Today, the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) Albany in Albany, Georgia is one of two federal facilities being recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the ENERGY STAR Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Award for their highly-efficient CHP systems, which increase the reliability of their electricity supply while reducing carbon pollution that causes climate change. The MCLB ...
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Federal Facilities Earn Energy Star Combined Heat and Power Award for Carbon Pollution Reductions, Energy Savings
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today recognizes two federal facilities with the ENERGY STAR Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Award for their highly-efficient CHP systems, which increase the reliability of their electricity supply while reducing carbon pollution that causes climate change. The awards, which demonstrate how federal agencies are reducing carbon pollution in support of ...
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Fact Sheet: President Obama To Announce Historic Carbon Pollution Standards For Power Plants
Today at the White House, President Obama and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will release the final Clean Power Plan, a historic step in the Obama Administration’s fight against climate change. We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged. The effects of climate change are already being felt across the ...
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