Klickitat County PUD

The small town of Roosevelt, Washington is used to high volumes of truck traffic. Each day, 18 hours a day, there are big rigs hauling train loads of refuse from around the region to the County landfill. For nearly a decade, the methane collected under this landfill was burned off into the eastern Washington sky.

The County landfill, when designed, installed a state of the art methane collection system. In 1998, that methane was diverted from flare stacks and into a brand new power plant. This project collected free fuel from the fourth largest landfill in the country to generate a carbon negative source of electricity for the entire region. 

The federal EPA states that landfill energy projects are the only type of renewable generation to actually remove otherwise ozone depleting pollutants from the air. 

CEC’s role in the project was complete installation of the plant’s 5th engine and upgrade work performed on engines 2 and 3.