PHG Energy and General Electric provide renewable power to Covington

In Tennessee, the collaboration between PHG Energy and GE Power & Water is officially online and creating electricity from waste materials at a new Covington, Tenn., facility. GE’s Clean Cycle generator, based on the Organic Rankine Cycle technology, produces power by utilizing heat delivered through PHGE’s downdraft gasification system and waste-mixing process.

The two companies successfully proved the coupling of the technologies in an extensive research and development project that resulted in the first collaboration. Now the system is deployed and functions using the city’s wood waste and sewer sludge. Previously both waste streams had been transported and dumped into landfills at considerable cost to the city.

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