Dive Brief:

• Advanced Disposal, a privately-held waste and recycling company, in conjunction with energy services company Energy Systems Group, opened a new gas-to-electricity facility at the Pecan Row landfill in Valdosta, GA.
• The plant is expected to produce 4.8 MW of electricity, which translates into powering 2,000 households using methane emitting from the landfill waste, as reported by Biomass Magazine.
• The project is the firm's third landfill gas project in Georgia and sixth in the country, ESG president Greg Collins told Waste Management World.

Dive Insight:

In January 2014, five colleges in Virginia  established an agreement with a gas operator to use landfill gas to power the campus. It not only saves the institutions money, but also cuts their carbon footprints down dramatically.