NYC Biogas Innovation Becomes Moneymaker

It’s a case of triple serendipity. The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant serving New York City in Brooklyn, produces three million cubic feet of digester biogas a day, but uses only half of it. The transmission company National Grid is looking for more natural gas to provide to its customers. The New York City school system produces about 1.5 tons of food scraps each week from its school breakfast and lunch programs, sending the garbage to landfills.Like a triple play around the Mets infield, all three issues will be dealt with in an imaginative project that will start up later