PHG, GE Open Waste-to-Energy Unit in Tennessee

Allan Gerlat, News Editor

December 19, 2013

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Two energy companies have opened their waste-to-energy operation in Covington, Tenn.

The collaboration between Nashville, Tenn.-based PHG Energy (PHGE) and Schenectady, N.Y.-based GE Power & Water (a unit of General Electric Co.) uses gasification of wood chips or other biomass such as sewage sludge from the city to generate gas. That fuel is then combusted in a heating unit that supplies a GE Clean Cycle generator with the thermal source to generate power, according to a news release.

PHGE provides the downdraft gasification system and waste-mixing process.

About the Author

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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