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19 October 2006 -- Marina Energy has entered into a partnership with DCO Energy, which signed a 20-year agreement with the Burlington County Board of Freeholders to lease and operate a facility that will produce electricity from landfill methane gas.
The 7.2 MW facility is expected to go online at the county landfill complex in the fourth quarter of 2007. A portion of the electricity generated from the facility will be used by the landfill complex and the remainder will be marketed into the PJM grid.
According to Marina Energy, the landfill complex will be able to meet a portion of its power requirements and not have to rely exclusively on utilities for its electricity. The project will use about 2,500 cubic feet per minute of landfill gas that will generate over 60,000,000 KWh per year.
Methane is produced when organic landfill waste decomposes. When methane is recovered as an energy source, it helps to reduce air pollution. In the past, landfills burned excess methane to reduce potential hazardous buildups of the gas. Gas is extracted from the landfill from wells using fans and blowers and is then fed into a series of pipes that deliver the gas to a central point.
Marina Energy, a subsidiary of South Jersey Industries, along with DCO Energy has collaborated on the development and construction of similar facilities at the Atlantic County Utilities Authority Landfill in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. and the Warren County Pollution Control Financing Authority in White Township, N.J. The ACUA project was successful and Marina and DCO recently added a second generating unit and they plan to install a third unit in 2007. The system in Warren County will go online shortly.
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