Greg Wright has found that the path to energy self-sufficiency has many obstacles for rural clean-water plants.
That hasn’t discouraged him from continuing the journey. It has forced him to be patient.“That, to me, is the ultimate goal, to get to the point where we are at least net zero, where it doesn’t cost us any energy to operate the plant,” says Wright, wastewater superintendent in Kinross, Michigan.Kinross is the site of a former U.S. Air Force base in the Upper Peninsula. The plant serves a population of about 6,000, including two state prisons. The prisons produce about 75% of the
