The East Landfill Gas to Energy Facility at Walker’s Niagara Falls landfill site has produced enough green energy from landfill gas to power 1,000 homes per year since 2007.
As the province of Ontario began focusing on clean renewable energy sources, Walker and its partners worked to find solutions to increase the amount of renewable forms of energy used to generate electricity. The result of this collaboration—the East Landfill Gas to Energy Facility. Located at Walker’s East Landfill site in Niagara Falls, the facility converts landfill gas into renewable power for the provincial electrical grid.
Using landfill gas for clean energy through this facility helps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. It also reduces the demand for fossil-fueled energy sources and offsets the carbon dioxide generated from releasing landfill gas into the atmosphere. The facility generates renewable energy using an internal combustion engine, providing additional capacity to the Ontario’s electrical grid, and helping to decrease the province’s dependency on fossil-fueled energy.
8,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide reduced
from traditional energy sources annually
1,000 homes powered
annually from landfill gas
30,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions prevented
from being released into the atmosphere annually
The East Landfill Gas to Energy Facility takes landfill gas and directs it to one Jenbacher JGC320 internal combustion reciprocating engine.