{"id":14829,"date":"2012-09-04T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2012-09-04T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T19:22:47","slug":"landfill-gas-to-energy-plant-opens-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/landfill-gas-to-energy-plant-opens-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Landfill Gas to Energy Plant Opens in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The inner workings of the Maryland Heights Renewable Energy Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Landfill gas<\/a> doesn’t get the love of, say, solar or wind power – rotting trash just doesn’t have the sex appeal of a well-designed solar array. It’s an energy source that’s readily available, though, and being utilized in more and more places. That includes right here in St. Louis: local utility Ameren Missouri opened it Maryland Height Renewable Energy Center<\/a> earlier in the Summer. This small plant is producing enough energy from landfill gas<\/a> to power 10,000 homes, making it the largest facility of its kind in the state.<\/p>\n

I took a tour of the plant last Wednesday, and was pretty impressed with what I saw (and, no, it didn’t smell – one of the things that impressed me!). I took lots of pictures and notes (and I’ll definitely share the pictures), but thought that Ameren themselves had done a really nice job of explaining the technology in this video (of which you may only want to watch the first 5 1\/2 minutes – the rest is footage from the opening ceremony):<\/p>\n