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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
First landfill gas energy project at a federal facility
EPA Administrator Whitman recognized the leadership role National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center has taken to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security by implementing
the first landfill gas energy project at a federal facility. To learn
more about the recognition ceremony with project partners, click
here.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland is the first federal facility in the
country to implement a landfill gas energy project. Two of the 5 boilers
at GSFC were modified to run on landfill gas, and can use natural gas
or fuel oil as backup. The landfill gas is supplied from the nearby Prince
George's County-owned Sandy Hill Landfill and fuels two boilers to make
steam that circulates to heat the Center's buildings. The project illustrates
a successful public-private partnership between Prince George's County,
MD., Waste Management, Toro Energy, NASA and EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach
Program in pursuing the economic and environmental benefits of landfill
gas energy. Each partner has an important role, Waste Management operates
the Sandy Hill Landfill which is owned by Prince Goerge's County and Toro
Energy, Inc., is a renewable energy project developer who developed this
project. LMOP worked with NASA to assess the technical and economic feasibility
of using gas from the Sandy Hill Landfill to fuel boilers at GSFC.
Summary of Benefits
- NASA's LFG project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 0.16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents over ten years. This will have an impact similar to removing the emissions of more than 3,500 cars every year.
- NASA expects to save taxpayers millions of dollars
in fuel costs over the next ten years
- These efforts will increase energy security by
relying on a locally available fuel source.
Visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Web site:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/0508landfill.html
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