Companies plan garbage-fueled power plants in Wyoming
CASPER, Wyo. — Wyoming’s garbage, usually something to be dumped and buried, will get a new life feeding small, modular power plants located near cities around the state, under plans from two companies.
Guernsey-based American Renewable Energy Associates plants to break ground within a couple of months for plants in Guernsey and Cheyenne that convert solid waste into electricity, according to company representatives. The company is also eyeing additional sites near Gillette and on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Meanwhile, Idaho-based Dynamis Energy is in talks for similar facilities in Riverton and Cokeville and plans to conduct a feasibility study for the Riverton facility in cooperation with the Fremont County Commission and the county’s solid waste district.
Both companies plan to install relatively small, modular facilities that burn the waste and turn most of it into a gas. That gas fires boilers, whose steam drives turbines that produce electricity for sale.
The process is used in Europe and at sites in Florida, California and Oregon, but the facilities are new to this part of the nation.
“Municipal waste is a great source of energy that we’re just throwing away,” said Rick Fawcett, who represents Dynamis Energy for its Wyoming projects.
The rush for garbage power is not just due to the desire to stop wasting waste. The push for new plants is largely due to an expiring tax break and an expected hike in the price of electricity generated by small producers, Fawcett said.
A sizable tax break offered through the federal economic stimulus package expires at the end of 2012, and waste-to-energy developers are expecting a 2014 hike in the rates power companies will pay for the electricity produced from small producers — a rate tied to the price of natural gas, he said.
So both producers are pushing forward with plans to break ground this year.
American Renewable Energy Associates spokeswoman Heather Foster said the company plans to have both its Guernsey and Cheyenne plants in operation before the end of 2012. Dynamis Energy expects to break ground before the end of the year on its Riverton facility.
Each of the American Renewable Energy Associates’ $30 million plants will stand on 3.3 acres and will process up to 300 tons of garbage a day, enough to create 13.5 megawatts of electricity, Foster said.
To put that in perspective, the Dave Johnston coal-fired power plant near Glenrock is rated at just more than 800 megawatts.
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