POET completes landfill methane gas pipeline; will provide $1.8 million in annual income to city landfill, offset 90 percent of POET Chancellor plant natural gas needs

In South Dakota, POET Biorefining and the city of Sioux Falls have completed a landfill gas pipeline that will supply methane gas to the 105 Mgy POET plant at Chancellor. The  10-mile, low-pressure pipeline from the Sioux Falls Regional Sanitary Landfill will provide the landfill gas used a wood waste-fuel boiler to generate process steam.

The two alternative energy sources will offset up to 90 percent of the plant’s process steam needs and could in the future replace 90 percent of the plant’s total energy needs. The partnership will provide revenues to Sioux Falls and reduce costs at the POOET Chancellor plant. The project is the 460th around the country to utilize landfill methane. The pipeline cost the city $4.3 million, costs $300,000 to operate, and will generate $1.8 million in annual city revenue from sale of methane to POET.

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