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June 20, 2009 – Vol.14 No.13 GreenWaste Recovery and Harvest Power Propose First Dry Anaerobic Organics-to-Energy Biogas Facility in the U.S. If approved by the San Jose, California City Council, the facility could take in up to 150,000 tons of organic waste per year to process and produce energy. The resulting energy, from the project to be known as the Zanker Road Biogas facility, could supply power to the adjacent San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant or be sold back to the power grid. The project would help San Jose meet its Green Vision plan. The 15-year plan envisions: creating 25,000 Clean Tech jobs; building or retrofitting 50 million square feet of green buildings; installing 100,000 solar roofs; reducing per capita electricity use by half; becoming a zero waste city; recycling and reusing 100 percent of the city's water; and moving to 100 percent renewable energy. The proposed facility could employ 30 to 40 during development and construction and is expected to create and retain 50 to 60 direct and supporting jobs when fully operational. For this project, GreenWaste would partner with Harvest Power, a company funded to harness the renewable energy in organic waste.
The technology at Zanker Road Biogas would use a process known as dry anaerobic fermentation to generate renewable biogas and high-quality compost. The dry fermentation technology specifically designed to process the relatively dry organic portion of the municipal solid waste stream that currently ends up in a landfill. This proprietary anaerobic digestion system technology has been commercially demonstrated in Europe by BEKON Energy Technologies, which has built 12 facilities in Germany and Italy and has 13 additional facilities scheduled for construction in 2009. BEKON's authorized representative in North America is Harvest Power. GreenWaste Recovery is a privately owned solid waste and recycling company that specializes in the collection and processing of residential and commercial trash, yard trimmings, curbside recyclables, food waste and construction and demolition debris.(6/16/09)
Links: GreenWaste Recovery Harvest Power San Jose Green Vision
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