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Jason Farren, P.E., Environmental Compliance Engineer

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Leader in U.S. Energy-from-Waste

Energy from Waste Industry
Covanta Facility Locations by
Annual U.S Waste Generation State
= 388,000,000 Tons

Recycling Landfill
26% 66%

Energy-
from-Waste
8%

Source: 2004 Joint Study by Biocycle and Earth

Engineering Center of Columbia University Covanta

• Hold number one position in the U.S. Energy-from-Waste industry

• Almost 16 million tons of Energy-from-Waste capacity

⋅ over 5% of the nation’s waste after local recycling efforts 2
⋅ Serve the waste disposal needs of approximately 15 million people

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Leader in U.S. Renewable Electricityy

Annual U.S Renewable Generation (non-hydro) =
87,213,000 megawatt hours
• 34 Energy-from-Waste
Energy- Solar facilities
from-Waste 1% Wind
18% 20%

• 6 biomass facilities

Wood &
Geothermal
Other
17%
• 5 landfill gas facilities
Biomass
44%

Source: US Department of Energy, Energy Information

Administration 2005 Report

8 million megawatt hours produced by Covanta operated facilities–

18% of the U.S.’s non-hydro renewable electricity 3

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Covanta’s
Covanta s Role in Connecticut
• Employs over 180 people in the state
• Owns / Operates Four of Six Existing EfW
facilities
⋅ Mid-Conn (Hartford) facility (2,000 tons/day)
⋅ SECONN (Preston) facility (690 tons/day)
⋅ Bristol facility (650 tons/day)
⋅ Wallingford facility (420 tons/day)

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Covanta’s Role in Connecticut

• Energy generation
⋅ Generating 115 megawatts
⋅ Enough to power more than 93,000 homes

• During nearly 20 years of operation our Connecticut facilities have:

⋅ Reliably produced 13 million megawatt hours
⋅ Safely disposed of approximately 24 million tons of municipal solid
waste, resulting in the avoidance of burning 5M tons of coal or 24M
barrels of oil
⋅ All four EfW Facilities are OSHA VPP “Star” work sites
⋅ All four EfW facilities have been recognized by the U.S. EPA’s
National Performance Track for environmental performance
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Municipal Solid Waste Management

in Connecticut

2003 – 3.9 million tons generated

Recycling Rate 21% 800,000 tons
Composted 7% 266,000 tons
Source Reduced 1% 38,000 tons

To be disposed 2,600,000 tons

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Connecticut Municipal
p Waste Disposal
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2,600,000 tons MSW to be disposed…

• 5% being landfilled in Connecticut 121,000 tons

• 10% exported out of state 269,000 tons
• 85% processed in EfW 2,200,000 tons

Connecticut utilizes
EfW facilities more
than any other state in
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Integrated Waste Management Hierarchy (CT)

• Intro
- 1980s – 1990s CT looked at IWMH and built a
comprehensive and highly effective SW mgmt Source Reduction
system
• Source Reduction
- Difficult to manage and measure
- Backyard composting
- Other limited activities Recycling
• Recycling
- Municipalities required to recycle residential
- Recycling system stagnant
• Waste Transformation
- Where CT shines… Waste Transformation
- Primary disposal approach; energy recovery
thru six MWCs with permitted capacity of 2.6
M ttons
- Provide disposal for 140/169 towns
• Landfilling Landfilling
- Only two left
- CRRA in Hartford (closing 2008) and Town of
Windsor
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Municipal Waste Combustors

An overview

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Covanta – Energy from Waste (EfW)

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MSW APC
Processing Power Plant

Ash
Management

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COVANTA MID
MID-CONN
CONN

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COVANTA SECONN

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COVANTA WALLINGFORD

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COVANTA BRISTOL

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Energy-from-Waste
Energy from Waste
Environmental Benefits

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EfW: Reduces Dependency on

Fossil
il Fuels
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 WTE is Clean, Reliable, Alternative Energy

 Stream of post-recycling MSW will continue

 Recovery of the energy component of MSW is better than

burying it in a landfill and contributing to methane production

 Recovery of ferrous and nonferrous is an important process

that facilitates recycling and energy savings

 Most current renewable power sources in use can only operate

under certain conditions (Solar, Wind, Hydro)

 EfW is able to operate and produce energy 24/7 and is sold as

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“base-load” electricity. It is a proven technology.

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EfW Facilities
EfW is a specially designed energy generation facility that uses household
waste as fuel and helps solve some of society’s big challenges
• Population growth Safe, reliable waste option

• Climate change Reduces greenhouse gas emissions

• Dependence on fossil fuels Clean, alternative electricity

• Resource management Recovers metal for recycling

Power: 560 kWh

Municipal Solid Waste
(MSW): 2000 lbs Metal: 50 lbs

Ash: 10% of original volume

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The Best Option After Recycling—Energy-from-Waste

Landfills
250 million
Renewable energy generated from
tons of landfills - 6 billion kWh
Average of only 24 kilowatt hours of
garbage electricity per ton of waste
dumped in
landfills A misuse of valuable land; generates
methane gas – a leading contributor to
global warming; inefficient energy recovery

Energy-from-Waste
30 million tons Renewable energy generated from
of garbage is EfW facilities - 15 billion kWh
Average of 500 kilowatt hours of
processed into electricity per ton of waste
renewable
Preserves land; offsets greenhouse gases;
energy provides energy recovery five times greater
than landfill gas to energy

For every ton of waste processed in an Energy-from-Waste facility, we offset

one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (30 million tons annually) by reducing the amount of methane generated
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