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Agreement extends methane use another ten years

POET renewed a contract Monday with the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to power its Chancellor, South Dakota, ethanol plant with methane generated at the Sioux Falls Regional Landfill.

For 10 years, the landfill has piped methane 11 miles to the POET plant offsetting fossil fuel use. The new contract extends the partnership by another 10 years.

POET CEO Jeff Broin says ten years of methane use has offset nearly 200,000 metric tons of CO2 from natural gas. That’s equivalent to a year’s worth of greenhouse gas emissions from 23,000 homes.

“Over the last decade, POET Biorefining – Chancellor has evolved into one of the greatest renewable energy stories on the planet,” Broin said. “This facility takes waste methane that would have been vented into the atmosphere and instead puts it to use making clean fuel to power our vehicles.”

The POET plant at Chancellor produces 120 million gallons of ethanol per year.