November 18, 2002—TIAX, a technology research-consulting firm, has been selected by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a low-emission technology to generate electricity from landfills. The goal of the project is to use hydrogen-enriched biogas fuel derived from a landfill to power a 75-kilowatt generation unit with very low nitrogen oxide emissions.
“This technology could drastically bring down the cost of electricity generation from these unlikely sources, and considerably lower air pollution emissions,” said California Gov. Gray Davis in announcing this and four other projects, which are part of a recent initiative of CEC to increase electricity production from biogas. Other sources of biogas being considered for increased electricity generation include livestock farms and food processing and wastewater treatment plants.
