Central Maine Landfill Making Power

A power plant is producing energy at Crossroads Landfill in Norridgewock. The plant went online in March and it is now producing 2.5 megawatts of power. As more waste is brought to the landfill, the plant will increase its energy output, reaching four megawatts by 2020. That's enough energy to power thirty-five hundred homes. Waste Management owns and operates the landfill. Operations Manager David Jarvis says the power plant is both profitable for the company and improving the environment.

"We could sit out here with candlestick flares and just burn off the gas and let it flare off," Jarvis told NEWS CENTER. "But why do that? Let's make an investment in infratructure and make electricity with it."