City of Keene Renewable Energy and Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Biofuels Project (EPA website, May 2011)
The City of Keene’s civic leadership continually supports community efforts to save energy, reduce emissions, and create a more sustainable place to live, work, and recreate. The City of Keene, in partnership with Carbon Harvest Energy, will transform the Keene Materials Recovery Facility and closed Landfill into a demonstration-level green energy project for greenhouse gas management through a combined heat and power (CHP) plant powered by methane from the capped landfill. The proposed power plant will … Continue reading→
Keene plans power boost, Trash will make heat, power (Keene Sentinel, Apr. 2011)
Keene’s transfer station may soon produce electricity, heat, vegetables, biofuel and fish, all from the garbage buried beneath it. Solid Waste Manager Duncan Watson announced to the finance, organization and personnel committee Thursday that the city was the recipient of a $500,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency… Continue reading →
Sullivan officials quickly identify a clear favorite for Apollo Plaza (Mid-Hudson News, Jan. 2011)
MONTICELLO – A very ‘green’ proposal presented by a pair of developers from northern Vermont emerged as the quick and clear favorite for development of the … Continue reading →
Project turns waste into power, food (Rutland Herald, Oct. 2010)
With the push of a computer button, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy recently launched a first-in-thenation project to generate electricity, food and heat from waste products. “We know Vermont’s never going to be a major player in national or global commodity-scale, agricultural or energy production,” Leahy said Monday, speaking to a small crowd gathered at the Windham Solid Waste Management District’s closed landfill as part of an event to kick off the first phase of the Brattleboro Carbon Harvest project … Continue reading →
Lights on for a new generator in Brattleboro (The Commons, Oct. 2010)
BRATTLEBORO—With the click of a laptop computer, the future arrived in Brattleboro on Monday. U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy was at the keyboard to fire up a 250-kilowatt generator that takes methane gas from the former Windham Solid Waste Management District landfill on Old Ferry Road and turns it into electricity. Central Vermont Public Service is buying the electricity made at the site, which it estimates is enough to power 300 homes. But that is only the beginning of what Carbon Harvest Energy has planned … Continue Reading
Renewable Energy Revitalized By New Project (WPTZ News, Oct. 2010)
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A local business kicked off a project Monday that it thinks could revolutionize renewable energy while helping to feed those in need.
Brattleboro will soon have a self-sustaining greenhouse and aquaculture facility. Its generator is powered by the gas from the landfill where Carbon Harvest is building the facility. Continue reading →
Brattleboro Energy Project Converts Methane to Energy (Fox44 News, Oct. 2010)
On Monday, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy pushed the start button on the project in Brattleboro that will convert methane gas from waste into electricity, heat, and eventually food … Continue reading →
3 proposals for Apollo Mall Pitches include power plant, market, retail (Times Herald-Record, Jan. 2011)
MONTICELLO — A company that specializes in converting landfill gas into electricity was among three potential developers to pitch plans to Sullivan County legislators Thursday for the development of a 400-acre site in … Continue reading →
Leave no trace: No-waste energy close to reality (Burlington Free Press, Nov. 2009)
Don McCormick is out to prove that old landfills, which dot the landscape across New England, can be transformed from community nuisances to multi-tasking community assets. Starting with a … Continue reading →
Methane Facility Gets New Lease On Life (VPR, Nov. 2009)
One of Vermont’s and the nation’s first landfill-based methane generators is about to get a new lease on life. A Burlington company plans to turn a Brattleboro … Continue reading →
WSWMD approves deal with Carbon Harvest (Brattleboro Reformer, Sept. 2009)
BRATTLEBORO — A new project at the Windham Solid Waste Management District will soon be underway pending the approval of permits after the WSWMD board of supervisors approved a contract with Carbon Harvest Energy … Continue reading →
Green Visions (Brattleboro Reformer, Sept. 2009)
We almost take it for granted that Windham County is a place filled with innovators in the green economy. But soon, at the former Windham Solid Waste Management District landfill on Old Ferry Road in Brattleboro, the nation’s first integrated renewable energy-to-agriculture and algae feed and biodiesel project will be put into operation … Continue reading →