City, Coast Guard break ground on energy plant

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City and state officials joined with top Coast Guard brass to break ground Tuesday on a new landfill gas co-generation plant at the Coast Guard?s Baltimore yard, which they said would meet all of the facility?s power needs with a renewable energy source.

The project will capture methane gas, a natural byproduct of waste decomposition, at the nearby Quarantine Road landfill and convert it into bioenergy.

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