PHG Energy (PHGE), Nashville, Tennessee, says it is making progress on a gasification plant under construction in Lebanon, Tennessee.

The company says the project is quickly progressing from concrete foundations to the erection of steel structures. On May 25, Scott McRae, gasification project manager for the city, and Tom Doherty of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s office of sustainable practices (pictured above) toured the site, which is being build next to a wastewater treatment plant.

Last June, the city was awarded a $250,000 matching funds grant to assist with construction of the facility designed reduce landfill usage and provide clean electrical power. The funding comes from the Clean Tennessee Energy Grant program administered by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC).

The biomass gasification plant is being built to convert as much as 64 tons per day of wood waste, sewer sludge and used tires to electricity for use at Lebanon’s waste-water treatment plant on Hartman Drive.

Completion is expected later this year.