Partner Profile

Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
Location	Whittier, CA
Organization Type	Govt. (Local, Municipal)
Percentage Green Power	54%
Organization-wide Purchase	Yes
Environmental Web Page
Partner Profile The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts provide environmentally sound, cost-effective wastewater and solid waste management for over half the population of Los Angeles County. A key part of the Districts' mission is to turn waste into energy, reclaimed water, and recyclables. The Districts are committed to converting every feasible biogas resource into energy, both to use on site and to export into the local power grid. Since 1983, the Districts have been generating renewable energy from biogas, which allows it to conserve resources, provides it facilities with power independent of the local grid, maintains utility price certainty, and keeps user fees low. Currently the Districts meet more than 50 percent of their electricity needs with on-site biomass.