Business View Civil and Municipal | April/May 2022

11 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 CAPSTONE GREEN ENERGY TO PROVIDE LANDFILL GAS-TO- ENERGY PROJECT FOR NEW ENGLAND SOLIDWASTE FACILITY The Project is Expected to Reduce the City’s Reliance on Fossil Fuels, Generate Clean Energy and Achieve Sustainability Goals Capstone Green Energy Corporation, a global leader in carbon reduction and on-site resilient green Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions, announced that its distributor for the Upper Midwest, New England and Eastern Canada Vergent Power Solutions (www.vergentpower. com) , has secured a contract to provide a one- megawatt microturbine system to be installed in a landfill gas-to-energy project for a solid waste facility in New England. The renewable energy project will convert the gas generated by waste at the landfill to electricity that will be redistributed to the electrical grid and utilized by the city to power its municipal facilities. The waste to energy project is expected to be commissioned in early 2023. Currently, the landfill generates and flares approximately 350 OPENING L INES