A row of greenhouses could soon be built on Vermont’s largest landfill. New England Waste Services of Vermont (NEWS-VT) issued a permit application for a Phase VI expansion that would include five greenhouses at the Coventry, Vermont landfill, according to an article in the Caledonian Record.
The greenhouses could use low-cost geothermal energy. So far no business partner has signed on. The greenhouses likely won’t be built for a couple of years. The landfill will wait until the first cell in the new landfill phase is complete and has begun to generate heat from waste decomposition, the article states.
Methane from the waste decomposition at the landfill is already being sent to Washington Electric Cooperative, which has a methane-to-electricity power plant at the landfill, says the article.
The company already is using geothermal technology at a landfill it operates in New Hampshire, but this one would be on a larger scale.
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