Toyota’s Kentucky manufacturing plant will soon be turning trash into electricity by burning methane from a nearby dump.
Officials at the Georgetown manufacturing plant announced Monday the new system will be able to produce one megawatt of electricity per hour.
The methane is captured at the Central Kentucky Landfill in Georgetown, which is owned by Waste Services of the Bluegrass. Toyota installed a generator at the site that burns the methane and sends electric power to the manufacturing plant. A six-mile transmission line runs from the landfill to the plant. The generator goes online next week.
Toyota officials say the generator can be upgraded to output 10 megawatts per hour.
Toyota announced last month that it intends to reduce average emissions from its cars by 90 percent by 2050, compared with 2010 levels.
Source: AP
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