GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Your garbage can
generate electricity. It sounds futuristic, but it's happening
right now in the metro area.
Channel 2 Action News was there when Mas Energy and Republic
Services unveiled three landfill-gas-to-energy plants in the metro
this week. The largest is in Buford, with two others in Winder and
Griffin.
As trash breaks down, it releases methane gas into the
atmosphere. The three plants capture that methane gas and convert
it into electricity.
Together the three generate enough energy to power nearly 16,000
homes.
Commissioner Tim Echols with the Georgia Public Service
Commission saw the value in having such facilities and pushed for
their financing.
"We look way out into the future to make sure that the energy
portfolio is balanced here in our state, and probably the most
important thing to us is keeping rates low," Echols told
Severe Weather team 2 meteorologist Katie Walls.
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