landfill methane News

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

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

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.

FirmGreen Launches Research & Development Lab in U.S.

FirmGreen announces the launch of FirmGreen Labs, its Green Energy Research & Development facility in Kokomo, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis — host city to Super Bowl XLVI. Kokomo, known as the ‘City of Firsts’ because of the large number of patents awarded its citizens over the last 100+ years, continues that history of innovation as home to FirmGreen’s first ...

Feb. 6, 2012

By FirmGreen, Inc.

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

Department of Defense Ready to Generate Clean Energy from Landfill Methane Using FlexEnergy Technology

FlexEnergy Inc (www.flexenergy.com), a clean tech company with a breakthrough solution that generates clean energy from methane with near-zero emissions, has successfully installed its first commercial order of the Flex Powerstation™ FP250 at the Department of Defense's (DoD) Fort Benning, GA Army base. The Flex Powerstation™ will convert landfill gas into enough renewable electricity ...

Sep. 8, 2011

By Flex Energy Solutions

FirmGreen® Extends its Leadership in Renewable Fuels with PlasmaTech Deal

Today, FirmGreen Energy, Inc. (FGE®) announces completion of an agreement with PlasmaTech Caribbean Corporation (PlasmaTech) to become FirmGreen’s exclusive sub-Licensee of CO2 Wash® technology for the Caribbean region. Under this agreement, PlasmaTech has placed on order a CO2 Wash unit for a biogas to fuels project located in Puerto Rico. The project will utilize CO2 Wash technology to ...

Nov. 14, 2007

By FirmGreen, Inc.

College Students Lead the U.S. towards a Greener Future

(Washington, D.C.) Students from Western Washington University drove from Washington State to Washington, D.C., in a car entirely powered by biodiesel fuel made from recovered landfill methane. Northwestern students built a solar powered system that provides electricity to a rural town in Panama, miles away from any electric power grid. The University of Virginia team designed and built a ...

Apr. 26, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

WM expands renewable energy program

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. 6, 2008

By Waste Management Inc.

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.

Cornerstone Announces Appointment of Industry Leader Chris Voell as Eastern Sales Manager for BioCNG(TM) Alternative Vehicle Fuel System

Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC announced that Chris Voell has joined Cornerstone as Eastern Sales Manager for BioCNG?, the alternative fuel system that produces vehicle fuel from such biogas sources as landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and agricultural and food waste digesters. Mr. Voell will focus on expanding BioCNG's east coast presence and will also work on enhancing Cornerstone's ...

Jun. 19, 2012

By Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC

Impacts from Latest EPA Proposals to Reduce Landfill Gas Emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued proposals designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that would require more than 100 municipal solid waste landfills to install systems to collect and control landfill gas. While the EPA seems confident in the positive environmental benefits of the new standards, it has comparatively little to say about the economic impacts on landfill ...

Sep. 30, 2015

By Agru America, Inc.

FlexEnergy and DoD Announce the First Commercial System to Generate Clean Energy from Low-Quality Landfill Methane with Near-Zero Emissions

FlexEnergy Inc.(www.flexenergy.com) an energy technology company based in Irvine, California, celebrated the successful installation and operation of the first commercial deployment of its Flex Powerstation™ FP250 system on November 8, 2011 at the Department of Defense's (DoD) Fort Benning, GA Army post. The Flex Powerstation™, the only turbine to offer both pollution control and ...

Nov. 9, 2011

By Flex Energy Solutions

TVA Wind Power Contracts Activated

The Tennessee Valley Authority has started the New Year with the addition of 535 megawatts of renewable power from four wind farms in Kansas, Illinois and Iowa. New renewable wind power sources that began delivery in January to the TVA power grid are: 201 megawatts from ENEL Green Power's Caney River wind farm in Elk County, Kan. 150 megawatts from NextEra Energy Resources' White Oak ...

Jan. 20, 2012

By Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

BioSoil Farm featured in Daily Gazette – Glenville’s BioSoil Farm transforms trash into treasure

When you eat a banana, do you ever wonder what happens to the peel after you toss it in the garbage? It won’t end up producing methane gas in a landfill if Chad Currin, founder and CEO of BioSoil Farm has anything to say about it. Currin looks at waste bound for a landfill not as something that’s at the end of its life cycle. Instead, he sees it as material waiting to be converted ...

Mar. 1, 2018

By BioSoil Farm, Inc.

Greenhouse Gas to Energy: Capturing Emissions, Producing Clean Fuels

Pittsburgh, PA / Alpen, Germany, 06-Sept-07 – Farm and food waste can still be put to good use if converted to energy in a biogas plant. Different types of feedstock including cow manure and residuals from the processing of sweet corn, beets and sauerkraut can thus help to run an agricultural or food processing business more efficiently. By turning waste into heat and power, business owners can ...

Sep. 6, 2007

By Freesen & Partner GmbH

Landfill gas set to generate income for the Scottish Borders

A renewable energy project by Scottish Borders Council will create enough green electricity to power more than 1,000 homes, while cutting annual carbon emissions by the equivalent of around 30,000 tonnes. The project, at Easter Langlee Waste Disposal site near Galashiels, Scotland, takes away the local authority’s burden of controlling and disposing of methane. The landfill gas scheme is funded ...

Aug. 20, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

GE’s Landfill Gas Engine Technology Powers Waste-to-Energy Project in Latin America

Three of GE’s Jenbacher Gas Engines Expected to be Commissioned this Month at Estre Ambiental’s New Landfill in Brazil, with Commercial Operation Planned for May New Landfill to Reduce about 70,000 Tons of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Atmosphere GE’s Distributed Power business (NYSE: GE) today announced that commissioning for three of its Jenbacher gas engines is ...

Apr. 14, 2014

By General Electric

FirmGreen, Inc. & SWACO cut ribbon at landfill gas-to-CNG fueling operation

Today, FirmGreen, Inc. (FGI) announces the opening of a Green Energy Center (GEC), near Columbus, Ohio. In a public-private partnership with the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO), FirmGreen built the landfill gas processing facility and fueling station that pumps compressed natural gas (CNG) processed from landfill gas. The facility collects and cleans raw landfill gas (methane) ...

Sep. 16, 2008

By FirmGreen, Inc.

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