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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 5 , 2009 Approved April 2, 2009 indication of how well we are able to maintain these units and get them to continue to run . We have 16 facilities that do WtE . We looked at your particular assessment. We looked at the number of tons you have a day, which is about 200 .300 tons / day . s that only 160 tons are controlled by the County and its municipalii�e . Wilson state y y The re st is collected by the nongovernmental entities and they can do whatever want with it. Haviland stat es that that amount of tonnage a day it becomes very difficult to havea our own plant. Typically we like to see 500 to 700 tons / day otherwise ita d cost he cost y p � [ ] lot more a ton because of the basic infrastructure of building the facility the associated with it. With such a low number it would be difficult to we make these economics work . Does it fit in with today ' s practices ? The way that ant amount of ro ' ects make sense for the community is to remember the signif1 are getting p l money from the revenues you get for your power . Some communities hi he than the Y renewable power rates at 13 - 14 cents / kilowatt. That is si usuall yabout 50 % to Y retail rate because it is considered renewable energy . That ' s other comes from the 60 % of all our revenue comes from the sale of the power .WtE plant is to find manufacturing tipping fee . To increase the efficiency more for t allows us to run at a much more customers nearby that need steam or hot water it higher efficiency on the overall plan. What makes a successful project? You have to have local support. Make f re you have zero discharge of water off the facility . There needs to be a source aste er is bein generated, Y obviousl . You want to be close to where the majority of the wet to the WtE lant* that way you reduce all the pollution in trucking the waste tosonsistently . There needs to be enough volume to make sure the plant run Public Comments/Questions Hause r asks with the new priority for renewable energy what do you expect t other p ha pen in NC in terms of WtE becoming a renewable ?energy resource . waste streams would designed into that tonnage total . states that a lot of solid waste] legislation was passed in 2007 . WtE was There Peverall sta [ ed in NC le ' slation [on renewable energy] . It does include landfill g talk to their included $i lot of activity especially in some communities in the last six months to to is a tY legislative delegation to simply appeal to them to have Senate Bill modified include WtE incineration. Hauser asks is it possible that the Federal Government will come in and trump it? 15