By Ray Stern | Phoenix New Times
Abengoa, the Spanish renewable-energy giant, will build a $110 million garbage-to-electricity plant in Glendale for Chicao’s VIESTE Energy, Abengoa announced Monday.
The plant, which will be sited at the Glendale Municipal Landfill, 11480 West Glendale Avenue, will convert about 180,000 tons of sorted trash (including plastics) annually, an Abengoa news release states. Each day, a gasification process will turn that trash into “up to 350 tons” of gas, which is then burned under strict emission controls to produce about 15 megawatts of electricity. (One megawatt can power 500 to 1,000 homes, depending on each home’s energy usage.)
Abengoa’s the company building the 300-megawatt-capacity Solana concentrated solar plant near Gila Bend with the help of a $1.45 billion loan guarantee.
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