Dive Brief:
- Bluesphere, a company that develops, operates, and manages energy projects, announced that it intends to pursue partnerships with landfill owners to convert methane into electricity.
- The company said it can offer a worthwhile collaboration for landfill owners by providing expertise, equipment, and purchase power agreements to sites that want to turn methane into a new stream of revenue.
- Bluesphere has been speaking with state representatives seeking to expand green energy production while reducing methane emissions. The company says that the representatives are receptive to working with landfills on methane-to-electricity conversions.
Dive Insight:
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bluesphere CEO Shlomi Palas said, "[A] large number of the landfills in the U.S., particularly in the southeastern region, are not productively using methane gas emitted form landfills. These landfills are the oil fields of the future.”
Bluesphere’s intent to partner with landfills comes as the White House calls for a reduction of methane gas emissions as part of its latest climate change mitigation efforts. The Landfill Methane Outreach Program, an EPA initiative, is one project promoting landfill methane-to-energy conversions that is already in place.
