Dive summary:

• A new gas-to-energy project is being started in Anchorage, Alaska, that will bring in $1 million a year in additional revenue and help power the nearby joint U.S. Air Force and Army base.
• The Army and Air Force base say they expect to get about half of their energy needs met from the facility, saving them more than $30 million over the life of the project while satisfying federal requirements for green energy use.
• While cold temperatures were a huge concern for the project, Mark Madden, manager of engineering and planning for the facility, said that after you got a few feet into the landfill, the temperatures are about the same despite freezing temperatures outside.

From the article:

Turns out that developing a landfill gas project in the cold of Alaska is really not that much different than anywhere else, said Mark Madden, manager of engineering and planning for the municipality.

Heading into the project, there certainly were questions about landfill gas production at the landfill, so Anchorage took a year to study flow rates from the site before deciding whether to even move forward with the project. ...