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The LMOP Online Toolkit is designed to help LMOP Partners, Endorsers, and others in communicating LFG energy benefits, highlighting LMOP participation, and developing outreach materials. The LMOP Online Toolkit features sample tools for outreach — including easy-to-use items such as logos, posters, and press releases — that you can download. The LMOP Online Toolkit can help you share the good news about LFG energy projects with your community, employees, shareholders, customers, the media, and other stakeholders.
Funding Landfill Gas Energy Projects: State, Federal, and Foundation Resources
This funding guide offers detailed information on innovative state, federal, and foundation funding resources available for LFG energy projects.
Now Available in an Online, User-friendly Format! — View funding guide (HTML).
Landfill Rule Guidance Document: Helping Landfill Owners Achieve Effective
Low Cost Compliance with Federal Landfill Gas Regulations
This guide helps landfill owners understand how federal LFG regulations
apply to their landfill and explains how energy recovery can be a cost-effective
compliance option.
For more
rule information.
To download document (PDF, 23 pp., 282
KB).
Landfill Methane and Clean Air Act Opportunities:
Incentives from the Acid Rain Program
This brief document describes how incentives in the Clean Air Act can
further enhance the cost-effectiveness of LFG projects.
To download document (PDF, 8 pp.,
2,041 KB).
Landfill Gas Energy Project Development Handbook
This handbook provides LFG energy project development guidance, with individual chapters about the basics of LFG energy, gas modeling, technology options, economic analysis and financing, contract and permitting considerations, and selection of project partners. The intended audience for this handbook is landfill owners, energy service providers, corporate energy end users, state agencies, local governments, and communities.
To access LFG Energy Project Development Handbook.
Combined Heat and Power Applications - Catalogs of Technologies
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies (PDF, 123 pp., 2.3 MB).
This document provides characterizations of biomass combined heat and power (CHP) technologies, including information on biomass resources, energy conversion technologies, and power production systems.
Catalog of CHP Technologies (PDF, 150 pp., 2.8 MB).
This document provides an overview of how CHP systems work and information about the cost and performance characteristics of five technologies.
State LFG Primers
These primers, currently available for 12 states, explain state
and federal environmental permitting processes, policies, and financial
incentive programs for LFG energy projects.
Meeting
the Needs of Corporate Energy Users
This brochure describes how LMOP works hands-on with corporations
considering using landfill gas energy, and it highlights LMOP products
and services that can be customized to help meet the needs of a company's
facility and energy managers, marketing and media relations professionals,
and other decision-makers.
Click
here to download document (PDF, 2 pp., 156 KB).
Landfill Methane Outreach Program:
Creating Partnerships and Power from Landfill Gas
This brochure provides basic information about LMOP, including: program goals;
products and services; partner success stories; and program achievements.
Click
here to view document online (HTML).
Click
here to download document (PDF, 2 pp., 185 KB).
To order this document from the NSCEP/NEPIS Web site, access it at item number 430F02013. Then add the item to your shopping cart, select the checkbox next to the item, and order the publication. If you would like to also order one or both of the other two LMOP documents available from NSCEP/NEPIS at the same time without having to re-enter your contact information, come back to this page and select the appropriate item number(s) for that document(s) and add it(them) to the NSCEP/NEPIS shopping cart too, before submitting your order.
Follow the Steps to . . . Landfill Gas-to-Energy Development
This document provides an overview of the landfill gas-to-energy project development
process and details how the LMOP team can work for you.
Click
here to download document (PDF, 2 pp., 87 KB).
Landfill Gas: Creating Green Energy in Your Community
This brochure introduces the layperson to landfill gas and the benefits of
landfill gas energy. The brochure is a useful tool for marketing LFG energy
to communities.
Click
here to download document (PDF, 2 pp., 310 KB).
To
order this document from the NSCEP/NEPIS Web site, access it at item
number 430F97046. Then add the item to your shopping cart, select the checkbox next to the item, and order the publication. If you would like to also order one or both of the other two LMOP documents available from NSCEP/NEPIS at the same time without having to re-enter your contact information, come back to this page and select the appropriate item number(s) for that document(s) and add it(them) to the NSCEP/NEPIS shopping cart too, before submitting your order.
Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program
The Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program, established by Section 1605(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, provides a means for organizations and individuals who have reduced their emissions to record their accomplishments and share their ideas for action. This on-line brochure provides background information on the program, as well as a link to the home page of the Energy Information Administration's Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Web site.
Click here to view document. 
Federal Incentives for Developing Landfill Gas Energy Projects
This fact sheet includes a summary of the key provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, along with other federal incentives, that are most likely to support landfill gas energy development.
Download document (PDF, 7 pp., 160 KB).
Landfill Gas Energy: Fueling the Economy and a Sustainable Future
This one-page fact sheet provides information about the current status of landfill gas energy projects in the United States and the environmental and economic benefits attributable to these projects.
Download document (PDF, 1 p., 81 KB).
Green Power from Landfill Gas
This one-page fact sheet provides information about landfill gas as a renewable energy resource and the inclusion of landfill gas in green power programs. It also provides summary information, the current status of landfill gas energy projects in the United States, and the environmental and economic benefits attributable to these projects.
Download document (PDF, 1 p., 164 KB).
Adapting Boilers to Utilize Landfill Gas: An Environmentally and Economically Beneficial Opportunity
Using LFG in a boiler to create power is a common practice that requires minor technical adjustments to the boiler. This fact sheet details the retrofits needed to enable a boiler to operate efficiently using LFG.
Download document (PDF, 4 pp., 311 KB).
Landfill Gas to Energy for Federal Facilities
This fact sheet, developed by DOE's Federal Energy Management Program
(FEMP), provides a snapshot of the LFG energy industry and outlines the
potential for and benefits of using LFG at federal facilities. In addition,
the fact sheet showcases LFG projects at the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Lucent Technologies, and General Motors.
Download document (PDF, 2 pp., 166 KB).
FAQs about Landfill Gas and How It Affects Public Health, Safety,
and the Environment
This "Q and A" document addresses public health, safety, and environmental
concerns related to LFG.
View document online (HTML).
Powering Microturbines with Landfill Gas
Microturbines are an emerging LFG energy recovery technology option, especially
at smaller landfills where larger electric generation plants are not generally
feasible due to economic factors and lower amounts of LFG.
Download document (PDF, 4 pp., 1 MB).
Small Landfills = Untapped Energy Potential
This fact sheet details unique and emerging project development opportunities
for small landfills.
Download document (PDF, 2 pp., 87 KB).
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center:
First LFG energy project at a federal
facility
EPA Administrator Whitman recognized the leadership role NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center has taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
increase energy security by implementing the first LFG energy project
at a federal facility.
View document online (HTML).
American Municipal Power-Ohio, Inc. (AMP-Ohio)
AMP-Ohio, an electric utility, pools LFG collected at four landfills with
relatively small gas production and markets the pooled LFG to its customers
at a rate comparable to market rates. Based on their success, the LMOP
recognized AMP-Ohio as 1999 LMOP Energy Partner of the Year.
View document online (HTML).
Ajinomoto Pharmaceutical Company: Building on Success
As described in this case study, by using LFG to produce steam at its
facility, Ajinomoto has prevented greenhouse gas emissions equivalent
to removing emissions from more than 23,000 cars on the road.
View document online (HTML).
City of Riverview: Creating Environmental & Economic Benefits
This case study focuses on how Riverview, by starting an LFG energy project,
not only took steps to improve the global environment, but also decreased
the potential hazards associated with migrating LFG.
View document online (HTML).
Clean Fuels Facility: Driving to a Cleaner Environment
This case study describes how a local government effort, which involved
implementing a technology that converts LFG into a clean energy source,
yields enough fuel per day to power a fleet of 11 vans and tractors.
View document online (HTML).
Detroit Edison Company:
Meeting Customer Needs Through Green Power
This case study describes the work of the Detroit Edison Company, a charter
LMOP Energy Partner. Detroit Edison's proactive support of LFG recovery
has led to the development of nine LFG projects in the state of Michigan.
View document online (HTML).
DTE Biomass Energy: Developing a Greener Future
This case study describes the breadth of LFG projects that have been developed
by DTE Biomass Energy, a charter LMOP Industry Partner.
View document online (HTML).
Elk River Landfill Gas-To-Electricity Project: Overcoming Obstacles
This case study describes an innovative project that overcame such obstacles
as funding issues and energy rights to develop a project that converts
LFG into electricity via a new technology that generates clean, high-quality,
stable power.
View document online (HTML).
Enerdyne Power Systems, Inc.
Enerydyne develops, owns, and operates facilities for collecting
and using LFG. Enerdyne has achieved great success by tailoring gas collection
and delivery systems to meet customers’ needs. For its efforts and
commitment to LFG use, LMOP recognized Enerdyne as 1999 LMOP Industry
Partner of the Year.
View document online (HTML).
Fuel Cells: Demonstrating the Power of Landfill Gas
As described in this case study, by working together, the EPA and an innovative
company developed and demonstrated a technology that converted LFG into
enough energy to power about 100 homes.
View document online (HTML).
Green Knight Economic Development Project
This project is a unique partnership between Waste Management,
Inc. (WMI) and the Green Knight Economic Development Corporation (GKEDC),
a non-profit organization formed to promote economic development in
Northampton County, Pennsylvania. WMI and GKEDC worked cooperatively
to develop a 10-megawatt LFG-fired power plant at WMI’s Grand
Central Sanitary Landfill. This project earned the LMOP Project of the
Year Award in 2000.
View document online (HTML).
Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs:
Reaching Out on a Local Level
This case study describes how the Illinois Department of Commerce and
Community Affairs facilitates the development of LFG energy projects throughout
the state. By encouraging the use of LFG and other renewable energy sources,
DCCA is helping communities protect the environment and take responsibility
for their local energy needs.
View document online (HTML).
Lucent Technologies: A Low-Risk, High-Payoff Landfill Gas Project
This case study describes how Lucent Technologies saves $100,000 a year
on fuel bills by fueling boiler operations with LFG instead of fossil
fuels.
View document online (HTML).
Orange County, Florida: Local Government Fostering Innovation
This case study describes Orange County, Florida's LFG energy project,
the first LFG energy project in the state. The project demonstrates
how successful partnerships between government entities can help improve
the environment.
View document online (HTML).
St. John's Landfill Gas Project: Innovation for a Cleaner Environment
This case study describes an innovative LFG energy project that was named
the 1998 LMOP Project of the Year. The project, developed by the Portland
regional planning authority and Portland Landfill Gas Joint Venture Partners,
supplies gas to a local plant where it is used to fire three lime kilns.
View document online (HTML).
The South Carolina Energy Office
This office has had great success in creating public and private alliances
to help develop LFG energy projects in South Carolina. The agency
was named LMOP State Partner of the Year in 2000.
View document online (HTML).
Waste Management, Inc.
WMI operates more than 30 LFG-powered electric generating plants throughout
the United States, several of which have been in operation since the
mid-1980s. Waste Management. Plants owned by Waste Management produced
nearly 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of energy in 2000 using LFG.
For its efforts to promote and expand LFG energy projects, LMOP recognized
WMI as a 1999 LMOP Industry Partner of the Year.
View document online (HTML).
LFGE Benefits Calculator
Use this tool to estimate greenhouse gas reductions from your LFG energy project.
View further information and download calculator (HTML).
LFGcost-Web – Landfill Gas Energy Cost Model
Evaluate the economic feasibility of a LFG energy project using this software model. LFGcost-Web is currently available to LMOP Partners and Endorsers only. For information on becoming a Partner or Endorser, go to Join LMOP.
If you are already an LMOP Partner or Endorser, view further information and download LFGcost-Web.
Interactive Conversion Tool
This tool can be used to conduct unit conversions, such as standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) to million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) or short tons of methane to million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMTCO2E). It can also be used to estimate LFG energy potential from a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill, including tons of waste-in-place (WIP) to scfm of LFG or megawatt (MW) capacity, and much more.
Go to conversion tool.
Landfill Gas Emissions Model (LandGEM)
The Landfill Gas Emissions Model (LandGEM version 3.02, released May 12, 2005) is an automated tool for estimating emission rates from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. The model was developed by the EPA Office of Research and Development-National Risk Management Research Laboratory, and the Clean Air Technology Center. The model can be used to estimate total landfill gas (LFG) and methane generation, as well as emissions of carbon dioxide, nonmethane organic compounds, and individual air pollutants from landfills. Model results can be used to estimate the recoverable methane available for a potential landfill gas energy (LFGE) project. LandGEM can also be used by landfill owners and operators to determine if a landfill is subject to the control requirements of the federal New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for new MSW landfills, the emission guidelines for existing MSW landfills, or the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for MSW landfills.
Version 3.02 replaces versions 2.01 and 3.01 and provides a user-friendly version with a Microsoft Excel interface, greater accuracy, and enhanced capabilities. For example, version 3.02 enables the user to estimate total LFG generation, which can be calibrated with a user-specified methane concentration other than 50 percent. It includes new default values to estimate emissions from wet landfills, such as bioreactors. Users can choose from a wider range of units of measure for inputs and outputs.
In addition to the LandGEM Version 3.02 Excel file, users should also download the "ReadMe First" file and User's Guide, which contain key information necessary to properly operate the model. To download these items, go to EPA's Technology Transfer Network Air Toxics Web Site.
Mexican and Central American Landfill Gas Models
EPA Recognizes Partners for Pursuing Renewable Energy Through the Creative Use of Landfill Gas
January 13, 2009 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the latest accomplishments of landfill methane partners who have reduced emissions of methane and created renewable energy. The partners accepted awards at EPA’s 12th Annual Landfill Methane Outreach Program Conference and Project Expo in Baltimore, MD.
>> More information
>> EPA Press Release
More Recognition for LMOP Winners
As a demonstration of its pride in the winners of LMOP's 2007 landfill gas energy awards, LMOP authored an article in the April 2008 issue of Waste Age to provide further recognition of its Partners' accomplishments. The article presents case studies of the award winners, which represented both small and large landfills, used a variety of innovative project structures, applied state-of-the-art technology, and found diverse applications for landfill gas.
>> Download article (PDF, 4 pp., 738 KB) Due to copyright restrictions, the PDF is not printable.
Kudos for LMOP
John Trotti, editor of MSW Management, a trade publication for municipal solid waste professionals, gave LMOP high praise in his editorial from March 2008.
>> Article
LFGE Combined Heat & Power
The September 2007 issue of Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production includes “Garbage In, Energy Out—Landfill Gas Opportunities for CHP Projects.” Authored by LMOP’s Brian Guzzone and Mark Schlagenhauf, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the article discusses the advantages and opportunities that landfill gas cogeneration projects present. LMOP and USAID are working through the Methane to Markets Partnership to advance methane emissions reductions through the development of landfill gas recovery and utilization.
>>Article
Biocycle Covers U.S. LFG Trends
The September 2007 issue of Biocycle includes the LMOP-authored article “Landfill Gas Use Trends in the United States.” LMOP provides the latest statistics regarding landfill gas energy projects and discusses current market drivers for their development, such as high energy prices and desire for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
>>Article
Advancing Landfill Methane Utilization
LMOP Team Leader, Brian Guzzone, presented “Conventional and Emerging Technology Applications for Utilizing Landfill Methane: Opportunities for Project Development in the Methane to Markets Partnership” at Sardinia 2005—International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium in Italy. The paper provides an overview of landfill gas capture and control, along with highlighting the role of the Methane to Markets Partnership as a collaborative resource to facilitate landfill gas energy projects across the globe.
>>Download paper (PDF, 6 pp., 118 KB, About PDF)
Harnessing LFG for Cogeneration
SC Johnson has produced a video to illustrate its use of an LFG and natural gas turbine/generator system installed at the company's Waxdale manufacturing facility in Wisconsin. To learn more about the use of LFG in an electricity-steam cogeneration process, check out the video on SC Johnson’s Web site.
CNN Highlights Interface’s LFGE Project
On May 4, 2007 and throughout the following days, CNN featured LMOP Energy Partner Interface Inc.’s LFGE project. The carpet manufacturer utilizes methane piped from the City of LaGrange, Georgia’s landfill to offset some of its natural gas consumption.
>>Video and transcript
LMOP Award-Winning Project Featured in Voice of America Article
The award-winning LFGE project utilizing methane from the Frey Farm and Creswell landfills in southeastern Pennsylvania is featured in a May 31, 2007 article and video on Voice of America's Web site. LMOP Partners Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority and PPL Energy Services as well as Turkey Hill Dairy, end user of the steam generated, each provide their perspectives on the benefits of this combined heat and power project.
EPA Recognizes Landfill Methane Partners For Greenhouse Gas Reductions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the latest accomplishments of landfill methane partners who have reduced emissions of methane and created renewable energy sources. The partners accepted the following awards at EPA's 10th Annual Landfill Methane Outreach Program Conference and Project Expo in Baltimore.
>> More information
>> Press Release
Alabama Company Sites New Facility to Utilize Clean Energy
EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson joined Alabama Governor Robert Riley at the grand opening of Jenkins Brick Company’s $56 million brick manufacturing plant, the first facility in the country located and designed to reduce operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions by using clean energy from a nearby landfill.
>> Press Release
EPA and Partners Join to Launch Innovative Clean-Energy Project in Utah
Working through the Landfill Methane Outreach Program, EPA and a number of partners joined to launch an innovative clean-energy project that will bring power to more than 2,500 homes in Utah.
>> Press Release
Landfill Gas Energy (LFGE) Appears in IDEA's District Energy Magazine
The International District Energy Association (IDEA) published an
article titled "Trash to Treasure: Landfills as an Energy Source" in the
Third Quarter 2006 edition of their District Energy magazine. This
feature story, authored by LMOP Program Manager Rachel Goldstein,
discusses the many facets of LFGE including market drivers for LFG
utilization and case studies for three successful projects. The full
article is available for download below.
Download document (PDF, 5 pp., 664 KB).
CNN.com Features LMOP Partner Award Winner
LMOP 2005 Energy Partner of the Year Interface Flooring Systems and LMOP Team Leader Brian Guzzone are featured in a May 5, 2006 article on CNN.com titled "Converting Trash Gas into Energy Gold." The article discusses beneficial use of LFG as a proven source of renewable energy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and highlights utilization of LFG at Interface's carpet production facility in LaGrange, Georgia. You can read the full story at CNN.com.
NPR Highlights Landfill Gas Energy (LFGE)
On February 1, 2006, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on the use of LFGE as an alternative energy resource. Interviewed in the story are LMOP Program Manager Rachel Goldstein and LMOP Industry Partners DTE Energy and Methane Credit LLC. The 5-minute report begins with a discussion of DTE Energy’s 4.6 MW LFGE project at the City of Winston-Salem in North Carolina and then provides a broader picture nationally. The full report is available on NPR’s Web site.
U.S. Landfills Convert Trash into Clean Energy (Voice of America, July 29, 2005)
LMOP Partner Prince George's County, Maryland, is featured in a video
produced by Voice of America News. The video highlights the
environmental benefits of LFG energy and focuses on Prince George's
County's two landfill gas energy projects, which, among other things,
provide LFG to power boilers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
(also featured in the video). You can view the approximately
3-minute-long video and the accompanying summary article on Voice of
America's Web site.
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