Dive summary:

• The Forest County Potawatomi Community has granted Advanced Waste Services a contract to build a new facility that will convert waste from food companies into power.
• The plant, which is planned to open August 2013, will use a proprietary anaerobic digestion technology to convert an average of 125,000 gallons of liquid organic feedstock waste per day into electricity.
• Power produced by the facility will go to providing electricity, hot air and hot water to the nearby Menomonee Valley Casino owned by the Potawatomi Community.

From the article:

The Forest County Potawatomi Community plans to build an $18 million generation plant in the Menomonee Valley that will convert waste from food companies into gas to power the tribe’s Milwaukee casino.

The plant would be built west of the casino on an employee parking lot on West Canal Street. The plant, which could be built in 2012 and go online in 2013, is part of a broader effort by the Forest County Potawatomi to make its operations more environmentally friendly, said Jeff Crawford, Potawatomi attorney general. The savings in utility bills at the casino would pay back the cost of building the plant in seven to 10 years, he said. ...