EPA's Region 6 Office
Serving: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and 66 Tribal Nations
WASTE-TO-ENERGY
A Renewable Energy Source
A Renewable Energy Source
Waste-To-Energy Team:
The mission of the Region 6 Waste-To-Energy (WTE) team is to promote the use of renewable energy under the Resource Conservation Challenge in three target areas: Landfills, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs). Our efforts are to prevent or reduce the emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas, through partnerships with other federal agencies, states, tribes, businesses and communities by fostering the development of economically sustainable energy recovery projects.
Goals of the Region 6 WTE Team
- Serve as a liaison for stakeholders
- Filtering new technologies
- Establish partnerships for pilot projects
- Promote renewable energy as a fuel source
- Work with states on establishing WTE as a priority and on regulations
and incentives
- Partner with stakeholders to establish Pilot Projects and MOU/MOA
agreements
- Influence Future Design of facilities
Project Goals:
- Capture largely untapped methane resources in landfills, CAFO's and POTW's for use as fuel
- Reduce methane emissions to the atmosphere
- Promote indigenous enterprises to build and operate recovery systems and use the energy
- Improve the health of urban dwellers by reducing land, air and water pollution
Additional Information:
U.S. EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP)
is a voluntary assistance and partnership program that promotes the
use of landfill gas as a renewable energy source.
The 2010 CHP Partnership Meeting and U.S. DOE Gulf Coast Clean Energy Application Center Texas CHP Policy Forum, is taking place November 1-3, in Austin, TX. The meetings will be held in conjunction with the Texas CHP Initiative Trade Show.
Preliminary agendas are now available and can be accessed on the conference web page (link to: http://www.epa.gov/chp/events/meeting_nov0210.html).
Who should attend:
· CHP professionals such as project developers, consultants, financiers, and manufacturers
· Energy managers interested in industrial, institutional, municipal, and commercial CHP applications
· Real estate developers and facility operators
· Parties interested in biomass CHP applications
· State and local policymakers and staff
· Electric and natural gas utility representatives
· Environmentalists and sustainability experts
Federal, State and Local Regulations, Rules and Incentives:
Database of State Incentives
for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) 