As renewable energy sources go, methane from a landfill might not have the glamour of some other contemporary sources, but the economic and environmental benefits still shine as brightly. Today, City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden, Paul Guilfoyle, plant manager for ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Polyolefins (BRPO) Plant and Novolyte Technologies, Inc. CEO, Ed Frindt joined representatives from Sustainable Energy Solutions and the Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industry, Inc., at a ceremonial ground breaking for an energy project designed to serve the interests of local industry, create a new, sustainable revenue stream for the City and help improve the environment for everyone in the region.
The project will tap the methane gas currently being flared to the atmosphere at the Baton Rouge Parish Municipal Waste North Landfill and deliver it to ExxonMobil s BRPO plant in Baton Rouge and Novolyte Technologies Chemical Plant in nearby Zachary, La., where it will be used as an economical alternative to the natural gas the plants currently use to fire boilers.
According to Mayor-President Holden, The project is very environmentally beneficial and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the North Baton Rouge area equal to removing 59,000 cars from the road or planting 73,000 new acres of pine forests. Over the 20-year life of the project, the municipal government expects proceeds from the sale of the gas to generate as much as $30 million in revenue.
The project will tap the methane gas currently being flared to the atmosphere at the Baton Rouge Parish Municipal Waste North Landfill and deliver it to ExxonMobil s BRPO plant in Baton Rouge and Novolyte Technologies Chemical Plant in nearby Zachary, La., where it will be used as an economical alternative to the natural gas the plants currently use to fire boilers.
According to Mayor-President Holden, The project is very environmentally beneficial and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the North Baton Rouge area equal to removing 59,000 cars from the road or planting 73,000 new acres of pine forests. Over the 20-year life of the project, the municipal government expects proceeds from the sale of the gas to generate as much as $30 million in revenue.
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