Under a deal negotiated with Honeywell International a Wilmington City Council panel moved to approve a $35 million plan for a landfill-gas-fueled plant that would generate power and dry sludge at the city’s regional wastewater plant.
The full council is expected to vote as early as Thursday on the plan for the 20-year construction and operation agreement with the company.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Honeywell projected that the new operation would save Wilmington a total of $16.7 million by 2034.
And it is expected to dramatically cut the city’s emission of greenhouse gases.
The City’s Public Works Department says that the new plant would use fuel-gas drawn from the Cherry Island Landfill to power the city-owned wastewater plant.
That would also dry and reduce the weight of wet sludge now being shipped to a Pennsylvania landfill at an annual cost of $3.6 million and make it available as fertilizer or as cement kiln fuel.
