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Landfill power from page 1 a green power premium. “And our rates are 20 to 25 percent lower than in surrounding communities,” added Balachandran. He attributes the utility’s success in acquiring renewables to con- scientious planning and foresight. “Alameda’s public utility board and city council have an environmental vision and strong support from the community,” Balachandran explained. “We were green before it was fashionable, so in the case of renewable power, for example, we signed contracts long before the competition for cleaner resources heated up.” Green power leadership Palo Alto, too, has a history of leadership in renewable energy, currently deriving 19 percent of its electricity from renewable resources beyond the 50 percent from hy- droelectric power, some of which Western provides. Utilities Director Valerie Fong shares credit for the city’s success with its primary power partner. “Using the scheduling and shaping flexibility of our Western contract enables us to pursue a variety of renewable resources, many of which cannot be shaped to match load,” she said. The power from Ox Mountain will help the city meet its goal of getting 33 percent of its energy needs from new qualifying renew- able resources by 2015. To meet that goal, Palo Alto must secure about 130,000 additional MWh per year, and landfill projects will be a sig- nificant part of the mix. The city is joining Alameda to purchase power from the Keller project and another LFG facility Ameresco is developing in Chico, Calif., anticipated to go online in 2010. The Bay Area city first teamed with nearby Alameda and Ameresco to develop the 3.18-MW Buena Vista plant. For their effort, the EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) honored them as 2007 Energy Partners of the Year. Both cities have received recognition individually for their commitment to clean energy, too. Breath California gave Alameda its 2008 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award, partly due to the city’s efforts to develop LFG resources. DOE’s Green Power Network has repeatedly included the voluntary PaloAltoGreen program on its top- ranked utility green power programs list for having the highest level of customer participation in the nation. However, like Alameda, Palo Alto includes the landfill gas power in its general energy mix. Project considerations More than 400 sites across the country have turned pungent, leaky landfill gas into an asset. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the potential for 535 more projects, although not all sites are equally suited to development. In the case of Alameda, a town of 75,000 residents located on an island in the San Francisco Bay, developing its own LFG project is not an option. The island’s one small landfill dates back to the community’s beginning, and the gas has long since depleted. Also, larger, deeper landfills have greater energy potential, and Balachandran pointed out that the average elevation on the island is only six feet. The project has to make business sense, as it does at the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control plant. The plant saves about $250,000 annually using gas from the city landfill instead of more costly natural gas for its incinerator. Landfill gas projects heat greenhouses, produce electricity and heat in cogeneration applications, fire brick kilns, supply high-BTU pipeline quality gas, fuel garbage trucks and provide fuel to chemical and automobile manufacturing. According to the Landfill Methane Outreach Project, the facilities have both economic and environmental benefits for communities. To learn more about opportunities landfills present to utilities, contact LMOP. Energy Services Bulletin The Energy Services Bulletin is published by Western Area Power Administration for its power customers. The mailing address is Western Area Power Administration, P.O.Box 281213, Lakewood, CO 80228-8213; telephone (720) 962-7508. The mention of any service, product, or technology does not constitute an endorsement of same and Western, the Department of Energy, or the United States Government cannot be held responsible or liable for use thereof. Editor: Kevon Storie Designer: Grant Kuhn Energy Services Bulletin August 2009 Want to know more? Visit www.wapa.gov/es/pubs/esb/2009/aug/aug091.htm 2PDF Image | Ox Mountain Landfill gas-to-energy (LFG) plant
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