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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 3, 2007 <br /> Approved June 7, 2007 <br /> Pollock notes that having a nearby industrial user as at Raleigh really makes the <br /> difference as their industrial boiler at Ajinimoto uses the gas year round in a boiler . <br /> Thomas suggests that if the gas can be given away they don' t need a utility license . <br /> Then the gas could be given away to a business and the business would lease the <br /> property from the county and charge the right amount to cover costs . <br /> Vickers states that there is no business close enough . <br /> Thomas suggests there could be one if you made gas available and you got one to <br /> come there . <br /> Pollock states that the Town Operations Center could possibly have been a user for <br /> vehicle fuel but they wanted the County to develop the whole infrastructure and <br /> clean up the gas and then the Town might be interested . <br /> Sassaman states that there are several issues - how much energy is there, what form <br /> it' s in, and the timing . The landfill gas is available for twenty or thirty years, but it <br /> peaks . It is not a steady, constant source . You have to have someone nearby that can <br /> take it when it is available . You have to do something with the thermal energy which <br /> is not so readily available in the summertime . <br /> Vickers asks about using a diesel generator, which can handle dirtier fuel and just <br /> make electricity and sell it all the time . <br /> Pollock mentions that the buy back rates keep all the electric generating options <br /> unattractive . It could be done if someone wanted to step up and pay the difference . If <br /> UNC had enough hot water loads and laboratory loads at Carolina North, they might <br /> make it work . <br /> Bowerman asks if there isn' t someone who wants to set up a business that could use it <br /> in biodiesel or some other investment. <br /> Pollock notes that you need to make a large investment in infrastructure so it would <br /> have to be certain. [Notes it' s $ 7 . 8 mfl4ien . ,millionj <br /> Vickers states that there will be significant regulatory oversight. It is easier to add a <br /> gas fired burner to a coal plant, did UNC look at that? What is the bottom line on the <br /> report? <br /> Pollock states that to accept this report at face value without the various options <br /> stated tonight, if UNC starts building Carolina North in the next two years, it makes <br /> 5 <br />