Clean Waste to Energy Plants

Green Energy is pioneering the development of a state of the art “Zero Emissions” Waste-To-Energy processing facility in Pennsylvania.  The facility will serve as the pilot for an estimated 50 to 73 identical plants to be developed over 10 years, helping Pennsylvania to realize its goal of “energy independence.”

 

The facility’s technology converts Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) or biomass to energy products (electricity, ethanol, and/or diesel fuel) without water emissions and virtually no air emissions.  Of more than 450 technologies reviewed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the technology we have chosen to implement (pyrolysis, gasification, and steam reforming) has been identified as the leading technology to achieve its biomass/MSW-to-energy mission.  (See the California Energy Commission’s 2007 report) The technology is patented and the company holding the patents is partnering with a principle of the development corporation.

 

The breadth of carbon-based materials capable of being converted to energy makes the project able to operate with cost efficiencies and profitability. The waste to energy plant will also provide an environmentally-friendly way of converting waste materials into clean energy products

 

The partnership created to develop the facilities calls upon the talents of established experts in their fields, and upon a company with a track record for successfully managing investment money, implementing technologies, and managing operating companies for profit.  The partnership includes:

1) Green Energy, Inc., tasked to handle the administration of the project;
2) DWAP, charged with providing the technological expertise to develop the project, and
3) Recycled Energy Corporation, responsible for plant design, engineering, and construction. 

 

A more comprehensive breakdown of the services provided is included in the “Management Team” section.

 

            This project also has economic and humanitarian benefits to the community:

1. It supports job creation in an area designated by government as an economically disadvantaged region, and generates tax revenue to the community;
2. The facility itself will be an attractive, European/Asian modern style design, unlike unsightly landfills;
3. The plant converts Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) or other bio-waste materials into ultra-clean syngas (similar to natural gas), ethanol, or ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel;
4. It produces savings for energy consumers;
5. It enhances national security by reducing America’s and Pennsylvania’s dependence on foreign oil;
6. Dramatically extends the useful life of dwindling landfills; (Landfills have declined from 20,000 in 1978 to 2,157 in the year 2000.)
7. Reduces greenhouse gas emissions by preventing MSW from converting to methane gas (23 times worse than Carbon Dioxide);
8. Diverts MSW from landfills where it decomposes and produces hazardous water which must be controlled to prevent runoff and seepage into groundwater aquifers;
9. The facility will remove, separate and recycle many valuable materials, convert the rest into clean energy products, thereby reducing the cost to produce recycled metals and other construction materials and preserving our natural resources and creating alternative energy for our nation.
10.  The project is self-sustaining.  It receives income from tipping fees, electricity supplied to the national grid, and ethanol to the oil companies.
11.  The project is infinitely replicable.  Pennsylvania alone would require at least 50 similar plants.

 

Aside from the numerous economic and ecological benefits of the project, it also fulfills an important goal of the state of Pennsylvania to become energy independent in 10 years.  Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell very recently stated, “Every year, Pennsylvanians send some $30 billion out of our state just to buy gas and liquid fuels.  Investing in conservation is critically important and the alternative is unacceptable.  The new policies I am proposing will grow our competitive edge in clean energy even further and move us dramatically closer to energy independence.  It will give us the ability to produce enough homegrown fuel to replace every gallon Pennsylvania current imports from the Persian Gulf.”

 

This project presents an economically viable way make efficient use of our natural resources while providing clean, safe energy alternatives to help achieve energy independence at reduced costs to consumers.