LA County Sanitation Districts Create Create Variety of Alternative Energies

EPA's Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,100 partner organizations to voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use.  Overall, the partners are buying more than 16 billion kWh of green power annually, equivalent to the carbon dioxide emissions from electricity use of more than 1.6 million American homes.

More about some of California's green power partners:

     The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts provide environmentally sound, cost-effective wastewater and solid waste management for over half the population of Los Angeles County.  A key part of the Districts' mission is to turn waste into energy, reclaimed water, and recyclables.  The Districts are committed to converting every feasible biogas resource into energy, both to use on site and to export into the local power grid.  Since 1983, the Districts have been generating renewable energy from biogas, which allows it to conserve resources, provides it facilities with power independent of the local grid, maintains utility price certainty, and keeps user fees low. Currently the Districts meet a significant portion of their electricity needs with on-site biomass.