Rhode Island's Big Landfill Gets $15 Million DOE Stimulus

Date: November 4, 2009

Source: News Room

The company building a proposed 42-megawatt landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) power plant at Rhode Island's Central Landfill has received $15 million in federal stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Energy. The company, Rhode Island LFG Genco, an affiliate of Ridgewood Renewable Power, said that the project which was originally expected to cost to $80 million, had risen to about $100 million. According to Stephen Galowitz, a managing director in charge of development and marketing at Ridgewood, the stimulus grant was part of about $150 million distributed by the DOE for industrial renewable energy projects and was welcome given the "challenging financing environment."

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