Connecticut’s second food waste recycling power plant will open in Bridgeport, thanks to a deal announced with the city Tuesday.
Ontario-based Anaergia announced a 20-year agreement with the City of Bridgeport Water Pollution Control Authority to buy the renewable power generated by the anaerobic digestion technology at the plant.
This announcement follows the plans announced in October by Pennsylvania organics company Turning Earth to put a food recycling plant somewhere in central Connecticut. That plant is expected to be online by the end of 2014.
The Bridgeport plant by Anaergia will use 10,000 dry tons of biosolids annually, which as the food rots will produce enough gas to generate 10,000 megawatts hours of electricity for the water pollution authority, the equivalent of powering 1,000 homes.
Financial terms on the Bridgeport deal were not disclosed.
