The facility will recycle fats, oils and grease (FOG), liquefied food waste and other higher strength digestible organic substrate through anaerobic digestion process to produce additional biogas fuel to supplement current unused digestion capacity.
The project, which is expected to begin construction in the first quarter of 2014, will be completed in around six months.
EWA general manager Kevin Hardy said, "Through our joint venture and design-build contract with J.R. Filanc Construction and HDR Engineering, and a fuel delivery partnership with Liquid Environmental Solutions, our commitment to the Alternative Fuel Receiving Project means that EWA will soon be a ‘net-zero’ energy consumer."
EWA, which currently produces nearly 80% of its 2.2MW annual electricity demand from biogas produced through the wastewater treatment process, has been a US Environmental Protection Agency Green Power Partnership Leadership Club since 2011.
