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Creative use of landfill gas (LFG) includes heating greenhouses, producing electricity and heat in cogeneration applications, firing brick kilns, supplying high–Btu pipeline quality gas, fueling garbage trucks, and providing fuel to chemical and automobile manufacturing. Projects range from small–scale community–driven initiatives to multi–million–dollar private investments.
More and more private and governmental organizations are realizing the environmental and economic benefits of using LFG. Look Who's Using Landfill Gas (PDF) (1 pg, 351K) shows some of the organizations currently using LFG in their operations. Also, corporate and government leaders tout the environmental and economic benefits (PDF) (1 pg, 10K) of LFG energy projects. Use the list below to find out more about some of the projects now operating in the United States.
| Name | Project Type | State |
|---|---|---|
| Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation Ethanol Production | Boiler (steam for ethanol production) | Kansas |
| Acme Landfill's LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | California |
| Ajinomoto USA LFG Energy Project | Boiler (co-fired with natural gas) | North Carolina |
| Alameda Municipal Power and Palo Alto Landfill Gas Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (three GE-Jenbacher 1,060 kW engines) | California |
| Allen County Infrared Heaters | Direct Thermal (infrared heaters in maintenance facility) | Kansas |
| Altamont Landfill Gas to Liquefied Natural Gas Project | Alternative Fuel (liquefied natural gas) | California |
| Antioch Community High School | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (twelve Capstone 30-kW units) | Illinois |
| BMW Manufacturing Landfill Gas Energy Projects | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration - 2 gas turbines) and Direct Thermal (23 paint shop oven burners and indirect heating of paint shop) | South Carolina |
| Brown Station Road On-Site Electrical Generation Project | Reciprocating Engine | Maryland |
| California Almond Growers Exchange LFG Energy Project | Boiler | California |
| Cargill North Carolina Landfill Gas Energy Project | Boiler and Direct Thermal (process heater) | North Carolina |
| Catawba County Landfill Gas Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (three) | North Carolina |
| Cedar Rapids LFG Energy Project | Direct Thermal | Iowa |
| Centralia Landfill Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Washington |
| Cherokee Brick & Tile LFG Energy Kiln Project | Direct Thermal (brick kilns) | Georgia |
| Cherokee Run, OH Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Ohio |
| Ciba Specialty Chemicals LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Virginia |
| City of Brownood, TX Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Texas |
| City of Dallas-Oncor High Btu Project | High Btu | Texas |
| City of Fargo and Cargill LFG Energy Project | Boiler | North Dakota |
| City of Fort Smith High Btu Project | High Btu | Arkansas |
| City of Glendale Direct-Use Project | Boiler/Steam Turbine | California |
| Clay Mining LFG Application | Direct Thermal (flash drying step used in the processing of mined clay) | Georgia |
| Cogeneration at SC Johnson & Son, Inc. | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (gas turbine) | Wisconsin |
| Cone Mills LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler (co-fired with natural gas or fuel oil) | North Carolina |
| Crow Wing County Small On-site Boiler Project | Boiler | Minnesota |
| Dairyland LFG Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (three Waukesha "Modulator" engines rated at 1,025 kW each and one GE-Jenbacher 320 engine rated at 1,057 kW) | Wisconsin |
| DeKalb County and Georgia Power Landfill Gas Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (two Caterpillar 3520 engines) | Georgia |
| Delaware Solid Waste Authority Cherry Island Landfill Gas Energy Project | Boiler/Steam Turbine | Delaware |
| Dominion East Ohio Gas Medium Btu Landfill Gas | Medium Btu (directly injecting unprocessed landfill gas into a natural gas reserve) | Ohio |
| Duke Energy High Btu LFG Energy Project | High Btu | Ohio |
| DuPont - Mississippi LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Mississippi |
| Earthmovers, IN Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Indiana |
| East Baton Rouge Parish LFG Energy Project | Boiler | Louisiana |
| East Kentucky Power Co-op Green Power Program | Reciprocating Engine (four Caterpillar G3516s) | Kentucky |
| EnergyXchange Renewable Energy Center | Boiler and Direct Thermal (furnaces and kilns) | North Carolina |
| Escambia County - Gulf Power LFG Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (2 Caterpillar 3520C/SR4B generator sets) | Florida |
| Evergreen - Sunoco Direct-Use Project | Direct Thermal | Ohio |
| Evergreen - Walbridge Coatings Boiler Project | Boiler | Ohio |
| Fauquier County LFG Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (two Waukesha VHP5904LTD generator sets) | Virginia |
| Fighting Creek Farm Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Idaho |
| Finley Buttes Cogeneration Project | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (2 reciprocating engines) | Oregon |
| Fitchburg-Westminster LFG Energy Project | Steam Turbine | Massachusetts |
| Ford Motor Company LFG Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (three) and Boiler | Michigan |
| Forest Lawn Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Michigan |
| Fred Weber-Pattonville High School Landfill Gas Recovery Project | Boiler and Direct Thermal (oil burner, rotary dryers, infrared heater, forced air furnaces) | Missouri |
| Frederick County Electricity Project | Reciprocating Engine (2 GE Jenbacher J320 engines) | Virginia |
| Frederick County Infrared Tube Heaters | Direct Thermal (infrared tube heaters) | Virginia |
| Fresh Kills High Btu Project | High Btu | New York |
| Frito-Lay Direct-Use LFG Energy Project | Boiler | Texas |
| General Electric LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Kentucky |
| General Motors Ft. Wayne Truck Assembly Plant | Boiler | Indiana |
| General Motors Lake Orion, MI Assembly Plant | Boiler | Michigan |
| General Motors Toledo, OH Plant | Direct Thermal | Michigan |
| General Motors-Louisiana LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Louisiana |
| Granger Energy and Rolls-Royce | Greenhouse, Boiler, Turbine | Indiana |
| Granger Energy Multi-User Project With Conestoga Landfill | Direct Thermal (boilers, hot oil heaters, process water heaters, remote thermal oxidizers, ovens, space heater, rooftop building heaters) | Pennsylvania |
| Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority and PPL Energy Landfill Gas Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (two Caterpillar 3520s) | Pennsylvania |
| Greentree High Btu Landfill Gas Energy Project | High Btu | Pennsylvania |
| Greenville Gas Producers, LLC and Greenville County, South Carolina | Reciprocating Engine (two Caterpillar G3520s) | South Carolina |
| Greenwood County Landfill and Fujifilm Project | Boiler (2 converted natural gas units) | South Carolina |
| Greenwood Farms High Btu Project | High Btu | Texas |
| Hanover County, VA Paint Evaporator Project | Direct Thermal (paint evaporator) | Virginia |
| Henderson County LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | North Carolina |
| Hoffman Road LFG and Bay View WWTP Digester Gas 10-MW Project | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (Combined Cycle-gas turbine, steam turbine, and heat recovery steam generator) | Ohio |
| Honeywell LFG Energy Project | Direct Thermal (process heater at ammonia plant) | Virginia |
| Horry County-Santee Cooper Green Power Program | Reciprocating Engine (three generators) | South Carolina |
| Hyland Landfill Renewable Energy Facility-Casella Waste Systems, Inc. | Reciprocating Engine (three) | New York |
| I-95 Landfill - Infrared Tube Heaters | Direct Thermal (infrared tube heaters) | Virginia |
| I-95 Landfill - WWTP Project | Direct Thermal (sludge incinerator) | Virginia |
| Interface & Milliken Carpet Manufacturing | Boiler and Direct Thermal (3 hot oil burners and a steam boiler for process heat conditioning equipment) | Georgia |
| International's Springfield Assembly Landfill Gas Energy Project | Boiler and Direct Thermal (process ovens) | Ohio |
| Iris Glen Landfill Gas Energy Project | Boiler and Reciprocating Engine | Tennessee |
| J.J Brunner, PA Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Pennsylvania |
| Jackson County NC Green Energy Park | Greenhouse and Direct Thermal (blacksmithing, metal foundry, glassblowing) | North Carolina |
| Jefferson City, MO Renewable Energy Project | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (three GE Jenbacher JMS-320 engines) | Missouri |
| Jefferson Parish and Cytec Industries LFG Energy Project | Direct Thermal (process air pre-heater and furnace) | Louisiana |
| Jenkins Brick Jordan Plant Landfill Gas Energy Project | Direct Thermal (brick kilns) | Alabama |
| Jenkins Brick LFG Energy Project in Montgomery, AL | Direct Thermal (brick kilns) | Alabama |
| Johnson & Johnson/ALZA and Mountain View Landfill Gas Energy Project | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (3 x 970 kilowatt generators) | California |
| Kansas Pipeline High Btu Project | High Btu | Kansas |
| Keystone Potato LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Pennsylvania |
| Kimberly-Clark LFG Energy Project | Boiler | South Carolina |
| L.P Gill Landfill and Siouxland Ethanol Project | Direct Thermal (thermal oxidizer) | Nebraska |
| Lafarge Cement Kiln LFG Energy Project | Direct Thermal (cement kiln) | Missouri |
| Lafarge Cement Kiln LFG Energy Project-Oklahoma | Direct Thermal (cement kilns) | Oklahoma |
| Lake County LFG Energy Project | Boiler | Ohio |
| Lancaster County LFG Energy Project with Turkey Hill Dairy | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (two Caterpillar 3520 engines) | Pennsylvania |
| Lanchester Landfill Gas Energy Project | Boiler and Direct Thermal (thermal oxidizers, heaters, ovens) | Pennsylvania |
| Lee County Generating Station | Reciprocating Engine (three 1.8-MW engines) and Gas Turbine (5.5 MW Solar Taurus 60 turbine) | South Carolina |
| Linwood Mining LFG Energy Kiln Project | Direct Thermal (lime kilns) | Iowa |
| Lopez Canyon Landfill Gas Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine | California |
| Lucent - Columbus, OH LFG Energy Project | Boiler | Ohio |
| Lynchburg City - Rock Tenn Paper LFG Energy Project | Boiler | Virginia |
| Mallinckrodt, Inc., a Covidien company, Gas Energy Project | Boiler (mixed fuel) | North Carolina |
| MARS Snackfood US and the City of Waco Landfill | Boiler | Texas |
| Middlesex Generating Company | Combined Cycle (two 5-MW Solar turbine generators) | New Jersey |
| Modern Landfill and H2Gro Landfill Gas Energy | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) | New York |
| Monroeville Landfill High Btu Project | High Btu | Pennsylvania |
| Montgomery Regional Solid Waste Authority Small Engine Project | Reciprocating Engine | Virginia |
| NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Direct-Use Project | Boiler | Maryland |
| Newton County Renewable Energy Business Park LFG Direct-Use Project | Direct Thermal (4 direct-fire gas burners) | Indiana |
| Northern Tier Green Power | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (one Caterpillar 3520 engine) | Pennsylvania |
| Nucor Steel Alabama Tunnel Furnaces | Direct Thermal (tunnel furnaces and ladle preheaters to produce flat rolled carbon steel) | Alabama |
| Oak Grove Landfill High Btu Project | High Btu | Georgia |
| Ocean Spray Cranberries Direct-Use Project | Boiler (dual-fuel capability) | Wisconsin |
| Omaha Public Power District's Elk City Station | Reciprocating Engine (eight Caterpillar 3516 engines) | Nebraska |
| Orange County, Florida and Orlando Utilities Commission | Boiler/Steam Turbine (co-fired with coal) | Florida |
| Ox Mountain Landfill Gas Electricity Project | Reciprocating Engine (six GE Jenbacher JGS 616 GS-LL engines) | California |
| Pen Argyl Green Knights | Gas Turbine (three) | Pennsylvania |
| Pilgrim's Pride Pet Food | Boiler (heat equipment for processing chickens for pet food) | Georgia |
| Pitt County Memorial Hospital LFG Energy Project | Boiler | North Carolina |
| Prince George's County Correctional Facility End-Use Project | Boiler and Reciprocating Engine | Maryland |
| Quail Hollow Leachate Evaporation | Leachate Evaporation | Tennessee |
| Quarantine Road Landfill - Coast Guard Cogeneration Project | Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration) (4 reciprocating engines with heat recovery) and Boiler | Maryland |
| Rumble/Fort Osage Greenhouse Project | Greenhouse | Missouri |
| Rutgers University EcoComplex - Greenhouse | Greenhouse (Boiler, Aquaculture) | New Jersey |
| Salt Lake Valley Landfill Gas Energy Project with Murray City Power | Reciprocating Engine (two 800 kW engines and one 1.6 MW engine) | Utah |
| Seward County and National Beef Landfill Gas Energy Project | Boiler | Kansas |
| Sioux Falls Landfill and POET Ethanol Direct-Use Project | Boiler (steam for ethanol production) | South Dakota |
| Solae Direct-Use Project | Boiler | Tennessee |
| South Kent Generating Station | Reciprocating Engine (two Caterpillar 3520Cs) | Michigan |
| Southeast Landfill - Campbell Asphalt | Direct Thermal | Oklahoma |
| Southeastern Chester County Refuse Authority (SECCRA) Landfill Gas Energy Project | Reciprocating Engine (one Caterpillar 3516 870-kW engine and one GE-Jenbacher 20-cylinder engine) | Pennsylvania |
| St. John's Landfill | Direct Thermal (lime kilns) | Oregon |
| Stoeffer's LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Ohio |
| Stony Hollow & Pinnacle Road High Btu Project | High Btu | Ohio |
| SWACO Green Energy Center | Microturbine and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) | Ohio |
| Tropicana LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Florida |
| University of New Hampshire EcoLine™ Cogeneration System | High Btu (piped to existing cogeneration gas turbine plant) | New Hampshire |
| Valley Landfill High Btu Project | High Btu | Pennsylvania |
| Valley Trail RDF Boiler Project | Boiler | Wisconsin |
| Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant | Gas Turbine (two Solar Taurus 60 gas turbines with heat recovery) | Texas |
| Wayne Township Landfill Gas Energy Project for Jersey Shore Steel | Direct Thermal (process furnace) | Pennsylvania |
| Wheelabrator Ridge Energy Co-Fired LFG Energy Project | Direct Thermal (wood/waste tire incineration) | Florida |
| WM Renewable Energy's Riverbend Project with McMinnville Power & Light | Reciprocating Engine (six Caterpillar 3516s) | Oregon |
| Wood Road Generating Station-Lansing Board of Water & Light | Reciprocating Engine (four Caterpillar 3516s and three Caterpillar 3520s) | Michigan |
| Zeeland Farm Soya LFG Energy Boiler Project | Boiler | Michigan |