Traverse City is among the latest municipalities in line to use Lansing-based Granger Electric Company’s renewable power generation facilities.
According to excerpts from the article:
Traverse City Light & Power will work with the Michigan Public Power Agency to acquire methane gas power from Lansing-based Granger Electric Company.
Granger plans to build the renewable power generation facilities throughout the state that should be operational by late 2009 or early 2010, MPPA spokesman Pete Schimpke said.
Light & Power Executive Director Ed Rice said the initiative will help the utility meet the state's anticipated renewable energy rules requiring utilities to have 10 percent of their energy coming from renewable sources by 2015.
Rice didn't have an estimate on the utility's financial investment in the project, but said it's "pretty comparable to our other generation sources."
"It's an economic wash for us, and it also helps us meet our requirements as mandated by legislation," Rice said.
Methane gas comes from decomposing organic waste in landfills. It's a renewable source, burns cleaner than petroleum and coal, and is generally cheaper to collect and process than natural gas, according to Granger's Web site.
"It's pretty much a proven technology," Schimpke said. "There's (a facility) in Lansing that's up and running very well."
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