PITTSBURG, Calif. (KGO) — A unique facility here in the Bay Area is helping fight climate change as well as create renewable energy.
The Keller Canyon Renewable Natural Gas plant was dedicated in Pittsburg on Wednesday.
It’s a short distance from a landfill, that’s supplying the raw material.
Watching big rigs roll up to the Keller Canyon Landfill near Pittsburg, you might not guess they’re helping to supply a new source of green energy for customers.
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But the organic material that’s dumped at the landfill is now driving the largest waste conversion system of its kind in California. Project developer Jim Bier from Ameresco says the hum of the newly-dedicated facility is the sound of methane and other compounds being refined into renewable natural gas.
“So, this is a very sophisticated plant. It’s able to remove all the impurities of the raw landfill gas and turn…
