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[>>Hoosier Energy is a not-for-profit electric cooperative operating in the Midwest]
[ISO footprint. Hoosier Energy is trying to meet the corporate goal of adding ]
[renewable generation to a mostly coal-fired portfolio.]
[Landfill gas is a low-cost renewable energy source ]
[and one that Hoosier would like to utilize.]
[The Woodland Meadows Project not only offers renewable energy opportunities]
[but also the chance to utilize waste heat from the engines to offset]
[The project will contribute to Michigan's renewable portfolio standard, ]
[adding green generation to the economy.]
[The Jefferson City Combined Heat & Power plant is a good example]
[of a facility similar to the proposed Woodland Meadows project. ]
[>>Inside the control room here,]
[we're measuring the decibel level of the sound of the engines.]
[Currently we're running at 69 decibels.]
[Of course, this unit here does not have sound attenuation on it, ]
[such as the Woodland Meadows facility will have. ]
[[Caleb Steiner, Hoosier Energy] We're here at the Jefferson City]
[Correctional Facility Combined Heat & Power]
[plant. Behind me are three GE 320 engines.]
[The engines are running on landfill gas piped in from about three miles away]
[from a Republic Services landfill.]
[[Thomas Tesh, Ameresco] Here is our generator.]
[They are just a little bit over 1 megawatt,]
[1,059 kilowatts. We have three of them at this facility to put out just a little bit over]
[3 megawatts of power. Once again, enough power to power 3,000 homes. ]
[>> As you can see, on the outside are the air intakes. At Woodland Meadows, they ]
[will be on top of the building. ]
[The building heights are similar. They are both going to be about 25 feet in the air,]
[the only difference being that there will be a fourth engine at Woodland Meadows]
[while there are only three here at this facility.]
[When I'm silent you can see that the meter drops down to anywhere between]
[Above me is the waste heat piping that takes waste heat from the engines]
[and routes it back to the prison.]
[Therefore, when the engines are running, the prison does not have to run its]
[boiler system and gets supplied with free waste heat. ]
[This is a similar setup to what will be in place at the Woodland Meadows project]
[except instead of having above-ground piping, ]
[all of this will be located underground and not visible. ]
[A common misconception about the piping of landfill gas to an area ]
[is that it would bring the odor of the landfill onto this site. ]
[However, as the landfill gas is piped in and destructed in the engines behind me,]
[it produces no odor and, in fact, when the engines are not running, ]
[they are not pulling gas from the landfill, and it stays at that location 3 miles away,]
[where it's flared off. When the engines are operating, ]
[they are destructing all the gas, thus destroying the odor. ]
[One way to think about this is like a natural gas stove. ]
[When you light your stove and the burner is burning, you smell nothing of the natural gas. ]
[The same thing can be said for these engines. ]
[As they're destructing methane, they produce no odor that you would find]
[if the gas was simply allowed to leak out into the atmosphere. ]
[The Woodland Meadows project will produce almost 11 megawatts of renewable energy,]
[and the waste heat will offset approximately 60 to 65% of the heating load]
[The greenhouse gas reductions of the plant are equivalent to removing]
[over 88,000 passenger cars from the road]
[or the equivalent of removing 2,000 rail cars of coal from use]
[or the equivalent of not using 52 million gallons of gasoline. ]
[The Woodland Meadows Combined Heat & Power plant,]
[located at the Visteon World Headquarters,]
[would utilize a waste resource for renewable electricity generation in an economic, ]
