In addition to its landfill gas generation plants, Wabash Valley Power Association also purchases power from a wind farm located in north-central Illinois.
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WVPA Adds New Renewable Power Sources
Wabash Valley Power Association (WVPA) has announced two new landfill gas generation plants in Indiana. The facilities are located in Wyatt and Michigan City. WVPA now owns 10 landfill gas generation plants in the state, with a total installed generating capacity of 30 megawatts.
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Press Release
Indianapolis, Ind. -- Wabash Valley Power Association (WVPA), through an exclusive agreement with Waste Management of Indiana, now owns 10 landfill gas generation plants throughout Indiana, with a total installed generating capacity of 30 megawatts.
PrairieView II, located in Wyatt, Ind., and Deercroft II, in Michigan City, Ind., are the latest additions to WVPA’s fleet of renewable power sources. In addition to owning the landfill plants, the company buys power from an anaerobic digester located on a northwestern Indiana dairy farm. WVPA also purchases power from a wind farm located in north-central Illinois.
Members of WVPA’s member cooperatives can participate in EnviroWatts®, a program developed to promote Earth-Friendly Energy Alternatives for consumers. Renewable power sources, such as PrairieView II and Deercroft II, contribute renewable energy credits (RECs) to the company’s power supply portfolio. Cooperative members may then choose to purchase those credits, thus supporting the ongoing development of renewable energy sources.
“Facilities such as PrairieView II and Deercroft II each produce enough electricity to power 3,500 homes by using the landfill gas, which is primarily methane that is produced as garbage decomposes,” reported Keith Thompson, vice president of power production for Wabash Valley Power. “In most landfills, that gas is burned off, but with today’s technology, we’re able to transform it into electricity,” he went on to explain.
Wabash Valley Power financed the construction of the new plants through the issuance of $8.6 million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds. The bonds, which were created by the Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2005, give electric cooperatives and other not-for-profit utilities an interest-free method with which to fund renewable generation projects. Instead of receiving interest payments from the co-op, the bondholder receives a comparable tax credit from the federal government.
Wabash Valley Power Association is a generation and transmission cooperative based in Indianapolis that provides wholesale electricity to 28 distribution systems and their more than 800,000 customers in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri.
Source: Wabash Valley Power Association
