Using Gas instead of Gas

Two cities in South Dakota have taken “green” to a new level with the completion of a landfill gas pipeline that’s now providing methane gas to help power daily operations of the 105 million gallon per year POET ethanol plant. ??

POET ethanol’s Nathan Schock describes the process. “One of our plants here in South Dakota, recently completed construction of a short pipeline from an area landfill that will be bringing methane gas from the landfill to our plant which we will use to power our boilers in place of natural gas. We’ll be displacing a fossil fuel with a renewable energy source that cuts down on methane emissions from the local landfill.

 According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the annual environmental benefits from using this gas for power is equal to removing emissions from more than 27,000 passenger vehicles, removing carbon dioxide emissions from more than 344,000 barrels of oil or sequestering carbon with nearly 34,000 acres of pine or fir forests. The partnership provides additional revenue to Sioux Falls and lowers energy costs at the plant. (Schock) “We are excited because we’re using renewable energy to produce renewable energy.”?