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Article: Republic Services' McCarty Road Landfill To Begin Sending Biogas to Anheuser-Busch Brewery in Houston.
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- June 24, 2009
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HOUSTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Republic Services, Inc. will now begin providing biogas from its McCarty Road Landfill to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Houston for use as an alternative fuel source. The project was developed as part of a partnership with Ameresco that constructed and operates a biogas processing facility on the landfill's property.
Once processed by Ameresco's operation, the gas is carried through a six-mile pipeline to the Anheuser-Busch brewery to help generate steam energy for the brewery's power plant. More than 55 percent of the brewery's fuel demand will be supplied by this new alternative fuel source.
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