PPL Partners with Vermont Landfill to Develop 4.8-Megawatt Methane-to-Electricity Facility

November 8, 2007 – Vol.12 No.33

PPL Partners with Vermont Landfill to Develop 4.8-Megawatt Methane-to-Electricity Facility.

The project will be built at the Moretown Landfill in Moretown, Vermont and provide round-the-clock renewable energy. The 200 acre Moretown Landfill, a subsidiary of Highstar Waste Holding Corp., (HWHC) will provide 2.4 million cubic feet of methane gas every day to power Caterpillar generators.

Landfill gas projects, like Moretown, have a dual benefit for the environment -- they generate electricity from renewable fuel while also eliminating emissions of methane, a gas that contributes to global warming. Methane is created when refuse in landfills decomposes. Further, unlike intermittent renewables like wind and solar landfill gas operations have the ability to operate 24 hours a day.

"We're excited to be partnering with HWHC on this project that captures a valuable fuel that would otherwise be wasted and uses it to generate electricity," said Steve Gabrielle, business development manager for PPL Renewable Energy. "When completed, this plant will prevent the equivalent of 29,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. That's equal to removing 40,000 cars from the road or planting 57,000 acres of new forest."

PPL Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, already has developed renewable energy projects that total more than 15 megawatts of generation -- enough to power 12,000 homes. These include solar panel installations and landfill gas projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

HWHC, based in Sloatsburg, NY is the largest privately held vertically integrated solid waste company in the northeastern US The company controls over 3,400 tons per day of non hazardous solid waste through its collection operations and transfer stations. HWHC owns or operates 12 transfer stations and five state-of-the-art landfills with operations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Vermont. (11/8/07)

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