This week, Alliance Sanitary Landfill's gas conservation pipeline began pumping 5,300 cubic feet of gas per minute from decomposing garbage to PEI Power
Corp.'s Archbald plant off Power Boulevard, generating enough
electricity to power about 13,200 homes, the Scranton Times-Tribune reports.
"Its been working
consistently for several weeks," said John Hambrose, Alliance spokesman.
"It's a fantastic project, and it's a great environmental project."
Alliance
expects the gas plant to operate at least 20 years after the last load
of waste is put in the landfill and it is capped. "It provides
tremendous energy," and offsets fossil fuel use, Mr. Hambrose said.
Original Source: Scranton Times-Tribune
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