Berkeley County (SC) Landfill to Provide Methane (Green Energy) to Aluminum Smelter

Date: June 8, 2006

Source: Announcements

A $5 million project will capture methane gas generated by the Berkeley County landfill in South Carolina, for sale to Mount Holly-based JW Aluminum, for use in powering a new metal smelter. The smelter is one of an estimated 400 projects throughout the country that use methane as an energy source. About a third of those involve green-powered businesses comparable to the JW Aluminum expansion.

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