City of San Jose's Organics-to-Energy Biogas Plant Taking Shape

[Fledermaus]

The San Jose City Council has authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop guidelines and potential lease terms for the development of an organics-to-energy biogas.

The MOU would set forth the guidelines and workplan for the potential lease terms of a biogas project. If the negotiations for the MOU are successful, the City of San Jose would issue the lease to Zero Waste Energy Development Company, Inc., a partnership between GreenWaste Recovery and their sister company, Zanker Road Resource Management.

The facility could take in up to 150,000 tons of organic waste per year to process and produce energy through anerobic digestion—from waste what would have been destined for a landfill.

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/06/san-jose-developing-organics-to-energy-biogas-plant

[Taverner]

1. Yay - my home town!

[ContinentalOp]

2. Hey, me too.

This sounds like an interesting project.

[ContinentalOp]

3. What is organic "waste what would have been destined for a landfill"?

Yard waste? Or meat and produce, stuff like that?