EditorialBiogas-To-Energy Helps A New York Facility Toward Self-Sufficiency

Biogas-To-Energy Helps A New York Facility Toward Self-Sufficiency

Ithaca’s clean-water plant has boosted biogas production and energy generation in a project that will yield $9 million in guaranteed savings over a 20-year contract.
  • Appeared in print as "Target: Self-Sufficiency"
  • By Doug Day
  • July 2015
  • Sustainable Operations
Biogas-To-Energy Helps A New York Facility Toward Self-Sufficiency
Biogas-To-Energy Helps A New York Facility Toward Self-Sufficiency

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Biogas-To-Energy Helps A New York Facility Toward Self-Sufficiency
The 35,000-cubic-foot Ovivo Ultrastore membrane gas storage system ensures a good supply of biogas and maintains the proper pressure.

The Ithaca (New York) Area Wastewater Treatment Facility now generates nearly half its electricity on site, and the plant team hopes a new biogas system can eventually meet most if not all power needs.

The plant (13 mgd design, 7 mgd average) has used biogas generation since...

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