Washington Electric Co-op (WEC) has produced a video tour of its landfill methane generating plant in Coventry, Vermont. The ten minute video was recorded during an open house held at the plant on November 4, 2009, and follows the tour actually given to visitors on that day.

“Co-op members, local residents and people in the energy business ask to see the plant all the time,” said WEC’s General Manager, Avram Patt. “Not everyone can make it when he have an open house, so we recorded the tour and have made it available to anyone online.”

The tour is posted on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mp6SxzRIvo, and can be accessed from a link on WEC’s website homepage as well.

WEC is Vermont’s fifth largest and most rural utility, serving over 10,000 households and businesses in forty-one towns in Orange, Washington, Caledonia and Orleans Counties. Consumer-owned and governed by an elected board of directors, the Co-op has a strong historical commitment to energy efficiency, cleaner energy sources and to social and environmental responsibility in our communities and beyond.

The Coventry plant is located at Vermont’s largest landfill, which is owned and operated by New England Waste Services of Vermont (an affiliate of Casella Waste Systems). The facility began generating electricity in July 2005 and was subsequently been expanded in 2007 and 2009 to its present generating capacity of 8 megawatts. It is now generating over two-thirds of all the electricity used by WEC’s members and is expected to be an economical and stably priced source of energy for the Co-op for many years.

In addition to the Coventry plant, Washington Electric Co-op gets power from a number of small local renewable facilities including its own Wrightsville Hydro Station, as well as from the large hydro facilities of Hydro Quebec and the New York Power Authority. WEC also expects to begin receiving a portion of the output from First Wind’s project in Sheffield VT, which has received approval from the Vermont Public Service Board. WEC has no power supply commitments from fossil fuel or nuclear sources.

Additional information about the Coventry plant, about landfill methane generation generally, and about the Co-op is available on WEC’s website: www.washingtonelectric.coop.

Contact:

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Avram Patt, General Manager
ONLINE VIDEO TOUR OF WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OP’S LANDFILL GAS GENERATING PLANT

Washington Electric Co-op (WEC) has produced a video tour of its landfill methane generating plant in Coventry, Vermont. The ten minute video was recorded during an open house held at the plant on November 4, 2009, and follows the tour actually given to visitors on that day.

“Co-op members, local residents and people in the energy business ask to see the plant all the time,” said WEC’s General Manager, Avram Patt. “Not everyone can make it when he have an open house, so we recorded the tour and have made it available to anyone online.”

The tour is posted on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mp6SxzRIvo, and can be accessed from a link on WEC’s website homepage as well.

WEC is Vermont’s fifth largest and most rural utility, serving over 10,000 households and businesses in forty-one towns in Orange, Washington, Caledonia and Orleans Counties. Consumer-owned and governed by an elected board of directors, the Co-op has a strong historical commitment to energy efficiency, cleaner energy sources and to social and environmental responsibility in our communities and beyond.

The Coventry plant is located at Vermont’s largest landfill, which is owned and operated by New England Waste Services of Vermont (an affiliate of Casella Waste Systems). The facility began generating electricity in July 2005 and was subsequently been expanded in 2007 and 2009 to its present generating capacity of 8 megawatts. It is now generating over two-thirds of all the electricity used by WEC’s members and is expected to be an economical and stably priced source of energy for the Co-op for many years.

In addition to the Coventry plant, Washington Electric Co-op gets power from a number of small local renewable facilities including its own Wrightsville Hydro Station, as well as from the large hydro facilities of Hydro Quebec and the New York Power Authority. WEC also expects to begin receiving a portion of the output from First Wind’s project in Sheffield VT, which has received approval from the Vermont Public Service Board. WEC has no power supply commitments from fossil fuel or nuclear sources.

Additional information about the Coventry plant, about landfill methane generation generally, and about the Co-op is available on WEC’s website: www.washingtonelectric.coop.

Contact:
Avram Patt, General Manager
802-223-5245
www.washingtonelectric.coop

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