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Feb 13, 2007 11:19 am US/Mountain
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Denver May Use Landfill Gases To Generate Power
DENVER (AP) ―
Denver's City Council was expected to begin work on a proposal Tuesday to build a new power plant that would generate electricity from gases coming out of the city's landfills.
The plan could generate enough power to serve about 3,000 Xcel Energy customers each year.
Negotiations are still under way, but the plan calls for Texas-based Waste Management, which operates Denver's Lowry Landfill and the neighboring Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, to build the plant and share the profits with the city. The power would be sold to Xcel.
Officials said the plant would be the first of its kind in Colorado.
Methane from the landfill is now collected in extraction wells and burned off.
Xcel spokeswoman Ethnie Groves said the proposal would help the utility meet the requirements of Amendment 37, a voter-approved requirement that large utilities generate a certain percentage of power from renewable sources.
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