Three 16 cylinder engine are powered by methane from the garbage.
Coffin Butte generates 2.5 Megawatts per hour per year of power.
That is enough to provide 2000 average sized homes with electricity for a year.
The landfill has a 98% capacity.
The cost of clean power from the plant is four cents per kilowatt.
Based on calculations from the united States EPA (Environmantal Protection Agency), the opporation of Coffin Butte Resource Project eliminates more than 15,000 tons of carbon dioxide emisions, and more than 100 tons of sulpher dioxide emissions per year.
Every100 kilowatt block sponsored has enough capacity to displace 24 pounds of coal per month or 292 pounds annually, as a fuel source.
Electricity generated by the project offsets the combustion of 12,000 tons of coal per year.
If the electricity generated by the Coffin Butte Resource Project replaced the electricity generated by a coal plant, the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions would be equivilent to the elimination of 16,000 cars on the road each year.