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Landfill gas cuts BMW paint shop costs.

Publication: Automotive News
Publication Date: 14-MAY-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Landfill gas cuts BMW paint shop costs.(New American Manufacturers)(Ameresco Energy Services)

Article Excerpt
Byline: April Wortham

When BMW Manufacturing Corp. began piping methane gas from a nearby landfill to its paint shop last summer, Doug Bartow didn't notice any difference from the natural gas that the Spartanburg, S.C., plant had always used to fire its paint ovens.

Then the bill came.

Methane costs a fraction of natural gas, which in December hit a 12-month high of $8 per million BTU for industrial customers. But a contract with Ameresco Energy Services, of Framingham, Mass., allows BMW to buy the processed landfill gas at the locked-in rate of $2 per million BTU for up to 20 years.

Less than a year into the project, BMW has surpassed its goal...

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