PPL Energy Fires Up Methane-to-Energy Project in Pennsylvania

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--PPL Renewable Energy (Allentown, Pennsylvania), a subsidiary of PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL), has fired up a new landfill methane-to-energy project located in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. The 513-acre site is on property that is owned by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, adjacent to the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex.

The 6-megawatt (MW) facility will provide electricity to the prison and the grid, plus pipe heat from the engines to county buildings. The plant is configured with two 3-MW units that will generate 50 million kilowatt-hours per year of electricity, enough energy to power 4,000 homes.

PPL also recently started construction on another landfill methane-to-energy project at the Blue Ridge landfill in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The estimated $9.6 million project will generate 6.4 MW of electricity utilizing four 1.6-MW Caterpillar G352C model internal combustion engines.

The project is being built by Millennium Builders Incorporated (Chambersburg) and is expected to be fully operational by January 2013.

Additional PPL Corporation subsidiaries, like Kentucky Utilities, Louisville Gas & Electric, PPL Brunner Island, PPL Martins Creek, and PPL Montana, have about 39 capital and maintenance projects in the works, representing nearly $20 billion of spending in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Montana through 2022.

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