Karen S. Kim
HILLSIDE DISTRICT -- More than 40 community members and city officials
donned their shades and comfortable shoes Aug. 2 to celebrate Burbank's
newest resource: trash.
The city hosted a dedication ceremony for its new set of 10
microturbines -- energy generators that are the size of refrigerators --
that began converting trash to energy at Burbank's landfill two weeks
ago.
Mayor Bob Kramer, Councilman David Laurell, Councilwoman Marsha Ramos
and city officials met at the landfill, 2500 Bel Aire Drive, Thursday
afternoon to tour the site of the new turbines.
The generators convert methane gas, a natural byproduct released when
trash decomposes, into 300 kilowatts of clean energy -- enough to power
at least 250 homes, BWP officials said.
The project was funded through a $250,000 grant from the California
Energy Commission and a $250,000 matching fund from Burbank Water and
Power.
