Permit Approved for Suffolk, VA Landfill Gas Cogeneration Plant

Date: January 22, 2009

Source: News Room

The Suffolk, Virginia City Council recently approved a permit for Maryland-based GPC Green Energy LLC to build a $26 million cogeneration plant utilizing gas from the Southeastern Public Service Authority's (SPSA) regional landfill there. Plans call for the plant to be built at Ciba Specialty Chemicals in North Suffolk. The developers of the project have yet to negotiate a service contract with SPSA, which could receive up to $3.5 million a year for the rights to mine the methane gas. SPSA has provided landfill gas to Ciba for nearly a decade through a three mile pipeline. The methane provides a significant part of the chemical company's power. SPSA gets about $230,000 a year from the arrangement. The cogeneration plant would expand that deal, piping all available methane to Ciba and supplying the company with virtually all of its electricity.

To learn more, contact:
General Power Corporation
P.O. Box 4404
Silver Spring, MD 20914-4404
Phone: (301) 946-5391
Fax: (301) 942-9134
E-mail: info@gpcenergy.com
www.gpcenergy.com

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