A Lansing-based company wants to tap into methane gas at the Orchard Hill Sanitary Landfill in Watervliet Township to produce enough electricity to power 1,100 homes, initially. The Herald-Palladium reports Granger Energy Services plans to build a $6 million power plant at the landfill and sell the electricity to the Michigan Public Power Agency.
Jim Grant of Granger Energy recently presented plans to for a 5,600-square-foot building to be built on a leased site on the northeast corner of the landfill.
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There is enough methane gas at the landfill to sustain constant electrical production for more than 100 years, he said.
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Source: Herald-Palladium
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