St. Petersburg in Talks About Using RNG from Wastewater to Fuel Sanitation Trucks
By Caitlin Johnston, Tampa Bay Times.
ST. PETERSBURG — City officials have had two meetings with representatives from TECO Peoples Gas this month to determine whether its possible to use natural gas to power its sanitation trucks.
The renewable energy would come from a $93.6 million biosolids project that the city has been working on for seven years. Now set to be completed in June 2019, the project is designed to convert wastewater byproducts into methane gas at the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility next to Eckerd College.
The goal is for that biogas to then integrated into the natural gas distribution system for TECO Peoples Gas.