Creative Financing Takes the Risk Out of a Biogas-to-Energy Project

A power purchase agreement lets a California agency benefit from a fuel-cell-based generation system without investing up-front capital.
Creative Financing Takes the Risk Out of a Biogas-to-Energy Project
About half of the electricity for the Regional Water Recycling Plant No.1 comes from this 2.8 MW fuel cell power plant. A 20-year power purchase agreement sets a price for the power for the life of the contract.

A California clean-water plant has moved closer to a vision of being off the grid by 2020 through a partnership that now fulfills about 50 percent of its power needs.

Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1 (RP-1), located in the City of Ontario and operated by Inland Empire...

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