A unique facility here in the Bay Area is helping fight climate change as well as create renewable energy.
Keller Canyon Landfill near Pittsburg helps to supply a new source of green energy for customers.It's a short distance from a landfill, that's supplying the raw material.
"So, this is a very sophisticated plant. It's able to remove all the impurities of the raw landfill gas and turn it into renewable natural gas to meet PG&E and these pipeline specifications, which, again, are the toughest in the nation," Bier said. "So, this renewable natural gas project is the largest in California. And it's also the first one to be powered by a landfill gas electric plant. So, it is unique in that aspect that it's the only one doing that in the United States, potentially even the world stage," Bier said.
He said the project expands on other recovery systems developed in partnerships by PG&E, including capturing the methane produced by dairies in the Central Valley.
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