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Name: Clover Bar Landfill Gas
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Fuel source: Landfill gas
Type of generating facility: Landfill gas-fired
Year commissioned: 2005
Owned Capacity: 4.8 MW
% Owned/Operated: 100/100
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- Located at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre in Edmonton, Alberta
- All output from the facility purchased by City of Edmonton
- Produces enough energy to power approximately 4,600 homes
- Powered by methane gas produced by decomposing organic material. Methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and transforming it into electricity allows it to be used as resource rather than polluting the atmosphere.
- The facility is one of Capital Power’s carbon offset projects
Last Updated: March 12, 2012
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