Apple will produce electricity from landfill gas

Recently the company Apple has signed a 16-year lease with the County Catawba (North Carolina, USA), according to which Apple will have access to industrial waste with the purpose of energy production.

The company departs 1.5 hectares of land where a big dump. To electricity is planned due to the natural process of waste degradation, during which a large amount of methane. For the construction of recycling systems to meet the company Quadrogen Power Systems, which will receive 40% of the polygon.





Rent cost for Apple will be only $ 5569 per year for the first five years of operation (at $ 1500 per acre). Then the payment will be transferred in accordance with applicable on the territory of the state rates. After the end of the contract term (16 years), the company will have the right to renew the lease for another five years.

News Catawba confirmed by the recent decision of Apple, which intends to sell surplus electricity from the solar panels from the roof of the new headquarters . So the new deal is designed to strengthen the corporate leadership of Apple as a "green" company.





Today, the U.S. operates 6,000 landfills, of which 360 already collect the gas formed during waste degradation. Theoretically, to use such a technology for processing landfill gas into electricity, possibly another 600 landfills in the country. Potentially, the number thus obtained is enough electricity to supply about 1 million Households. published

 

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Source: ecotown.com.ua/news/Apple-vyroblyatyme-elektroenerhiyu-zi-zvalyshchnoho-hazu/