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| The Electric Power Generating Facility is a major component
of the Landfill Gas-to-Energy project. The MCUA's
Electric Power Generating Facility will utilize the greenhouse gases from
three inactive regional landfills - ILR, Edison and Middlesex County Landfill
- to fire three turbines, producing 16-megawatts of electrical power. |
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| The gas turbine generators, which replicate jet engines,
produce ten-megawatts of energy when the facility is operating with full
potential. The gas turbine generators release 70% of its energy in the form
of heat, which will also be recycled and beneficially utilized to produce
steam via the gas turbine generators to make an additional 8-megawatts of
electricity. The complex-cycle facility consumes two-megawatts to operate,
therefore the net output of the Electric Power Generating Facility is 16-megawatts
of energy, enough electricity to power 9000 homes. |
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