Dane County, Wisconsin, is planning a $23.5 million project at the county landfill to collect gas and convert it into automobile fuel, a report by the Wisconsin State Journal says. The project will be the first in the state.
The landfill will sell its fuel to an interstate pipeline for use, the report says. The effort comes after local utility companies announced a plan to cut back on the money they have paid to landfills and waste digesters for gas-generated electricity.
The report says that multiyear utility contracts give a more short-term certainty about revenue levels, but county officials say current natural gas prices and government subsidies can provide additional income after its operations begin.
Dane County Landfill will begin gradually increasing its gas production, which the report says will hopefully lure more private investment to build more biodigesters. The county says in the report that equipment is scheduled to be up and running in early 2019.
County officials project that three years of landfill gas sales will cover the $18 million of equipment needed to purify and inject the gas into the pipeline. County executive Joe Parisi also proposed $5.5 million for equipment to inject gas trucked in my biodigesters and $250,000 for a study on where the digesters should be built.
The report says county officials expect to start selling the gas by spring 2019. The gas will be metered where it enters the pipeline. Once in the pipeline, it goes to distribution points for use in homes or is compressed and used as fuel. The county says it plans to sell strictly to the compressed natural gas markets.
The landfill will sell its fuel to an interstate pipeline for use, the report says. The effort comes after local utility companies announced a plan to cut back on the money they have paid to landfills and waste digesters for gas-generated electricity.
The report says that multiyear utility contracts give a more short-term certainty about revenue levels, but county officials say current natural gas prices and government subsidies can provide additional income after its operations begin.
Dane County Landfill will begin gradually increasing its gas production, which the report says will hopefully lure more private investment to build more biodigesters. The county says in the report that equipment is scheduled to be up and running in early 2019.
County officials project that three years of landfill gas sales will cover the $18 million of equipment needed to purify and inject the gas into the pipeline. County executive Joe Parisi also proposed $5.5 million for equipment to inject gas trucked in my biodigesters and $250,000 for a study on where the digesters should be built.
The report says county officials expect to start selling the gas by spring 2019. The gas will be metered where it enters the pipeline. Once in the pipeline, it goes to distribution points for use in homes or is compressed and used as fuel. The county says it plans to sell strictly to the compressed natural gas markets.
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