Waste Management Debuts New Renewable Natural Gas Facility

FAIRMONT City, Ill.-(Troupe Ideology)-Waste Management (NYSE: WM) acknowledged the fundamental of a unsurpassed Renewable Natural Gas Factory creating pipeline-ready natural gas from the landfill gas fashioned at its Milam Landfill in Fairmont City, Illinois. In fast December, the processed renewable natural gas forward motion be injected featuring in the Ameren Illinois pipeline for flinch at other locations, by means of precise Mishandle Management services. The natural gas is used to heat homes or fuel motor vehicle fleets and other resources that run on trampled natural gas (CNG). The Milam Renewable Natural Gas Factory is intended to process roughly 3,500 consummate cubic feet per undersized (SCFM) of inside landfill gas. This is as very much gas as it takes to fuel about 200 Mishandle Management CNG synchronize trucks every person day, and represents enhanced than 5 percent of the natural gas that is used in Mishandle Management's very great CNG convoy per day. Mishandle Management of Illinois right now has enhanced than 100 CNG trucks in its convoy displacing about one million gallons per go out with of diesel fuel. "The Milam Renewable Natural Gas Factory is the early facility of its velvety we've beyond doubt built from the gain up," theoretical Jim Trevathan, police officer crime be in charge and leading lively allowed for Mishandle Management. "This momentous facility utilizes renewable landfill gas, and purifies it to a helpful natural gas that in progress feeds featuring in the approaching pipeline to fuel our emerging convoy of CNG trucks. This in actual fact maximizes available resources while creating a new and vigorous use." "At Ameren Illinois, we are investing in new technology upgrades to our natural gas liberation system, so for example we were approached by Mishandle Management for this first-of-its-kind companionship, it completed style impression to us," theoretical Richard J. Pointer, be in charge and CEO of Ameren Illinois. "Enthusiastic in an environmentally-responsible manner is one of Ameren Illinois' origin values and it's notes to our consumers. On behalf of our 3,000 run, I approve Mishandle Management for plunder this notes rostrum." Intend wind and solar, landfill gas - which is fashioned as waste naturally decomposes fashionable a landfill - is a renewable source of energy allowed by the U.S. Young Expect Order as an alternative to fossil fuels. In the manner of captured, the gas is potable and trampled and can be used to fuel an engine or a turbine to generate electricity. At the new Milam Renewable Natural Gas Factory, the landfill gas is benefit processed to form pipeline-quality natural gas. The represent Milam Landfill-Gas-to-Energy facility produces 2.4 megawatts of renewable energy. The output from this power plant is now directly interrelated to the new Renewable Natural Gas Factory, manner of speaking the power compulsory to run the new facility. The Renewable Natural Gas Factory moreover reduces the site's emissions. In the function of the gas is treated, fairly than burned onsite, Mishandle Management anticipates a 60 percent reduction in emissions of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate inquiry. The 19 million Renewable Gas Factory was discriminatorily funded by a 2.4 million comprehend from the Illinois Domain of Phone and Worthwhile Ability and the Illinois Operate Agency. Construction of the facility provided the equal of 17 union jobs empty a ten-month alter, and three equipped jobs. "We get-together with Mishandle Management on the fundamental of this new facility," theoretical Illinois EPA Self-important Lisa Bonnett. "This project is a done example of proactive dealings that forward motion jack up our environment while bodyguard Illinois' economy bold." Mishandle Management's Devotion to Using Landfill Gas to Flash Electricity, Provoke Renewable Gas and Disrupt Relic Nutrition The Milam Renewable Natural Gas Factory is the company's third plant to convert landfill gas to natural gas. In California, Mishandle Management collaborated in the world's prime plant to convert landfill gas to ultra-low-carbon liquefied natural gas (LNG). With school of dance gas emissions coexistent with this fuel, enhanced than 80 percent lower than people of diesel, this is the cleanest fuel available for stalwart trucks. The facility produces up to 13,000 gallons of LNG per day and helps to power the company's convoy in California. In Ohio, Mishandle Management processes about 3,000 SCFM of landfill gas and delivers it to a natural gas pipeline. Mishandle Management has 134 landfill projects using landfill gas to generate electricity, form renewable gas, or dislodge fossil fuel. These projects form the equal of enhanced than 650 megawatts of power capacity, acceptable to power here partly a million homes, and dislodge the equal of about 2.5 million heaps of coal per go out with. About Mishandle Management Mishandle Management, based in Houston, Texas, is the earliest provider of chubby waste management armed forces in North America. Our subsidiaries serve up synchronize, transfer, recycling and resource resuscitation, and disposal armed forces. We are the prime urban recycler and moreover a earliest developer, operator and controller of waste-to-energy and landfill-gas-to-energy services in the Co-conspirator States. Our consumers augment urban, commercial, specialized and majesty consumers nearly North America. To see enhanced stomping ground www.wm.com.