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Waste Management, Houston, has announced plans to expand its landfill gas to energy practices adding 60 new facilities over the next five years. Its goal is to open 10 new facilities as well as begin developing 10 more by 2008...
Montauk Energy Capital, Pittsburgh, Pa., today opened a landfill gas recovery facility at the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Colerain Township, Ohio. The facility is reportedly the largest such facility in the world. The landfill is owned and...
Covanta Holding, Fairfield, N.J., has announced a 10-year agreement with the Harrisburg Authority to operate its waste-to-energy facility in Harrisburg, Pa. The agreement pays Covanta an annual fee of $10.5 million (subject to annual escalation)...
The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) sent a letter in hopes the Senate would recognize waste-to-energy as a renewable energy source. In the letter to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), SWANA asked him to include waste-to-energy in his...
Bayshore Recycling, Woodbridge, N.J., has announced it will install a $5.7 million solar panel system to provide sustainable power to its facility. The 700-kilowatt system, which will be installed on the facility’s roof later this year, will be...
Southern California Edison, Rosemead, Calif., has issued its new Biomass Standard Contract to help smaller biomass generators contribute to reaching the state’s renewable energy goals. The new contract enables generators with capabilities less...
Allied Waste Industries Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., has announced the ground breaking of its newest gas-to-energy project in Jefferson City, Mo. The project, in conjunction with the Ameresco, Inc., Columbia Water & Light and the state, will...
Fairfield, N.J.-based Covanta Holding Corp. has agreed to purchase a 40 percent stake in China's Chongqing Sanfeng Environmental Industry Co., a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron & Steel (Group) Ltd. Sanfeng holds minority interests in two waste-to...
The city of Denver has proposed the construction of a gas-to-energy plant using methane from two of the city’s landfills. The Lowry Landfill and the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site are both owned by Houston-based Waste Management. According to a...
