Excess heat from Waste Management’s landfill-gas-to-energy facility in Wampsville, New York, will be used by Johnson Brothers Lumber Companies (JBL), based in Cazenovia, New York, to dry the company’s lumber.

The LFGTE facility is part of a public-private partnership between Waste Management and Madison County, New York’s Department of Solid Waste and Sanitation. The facility became operational in 2009 and is generating 1.4 megawatts of electricity. The facility also produces thermal energy to heat three on-site buildings, from methane gas from the county’s landfill.

Under the 20-year agreement, Madison County receives an estimated annual revenue of $200,000 from WM for ongoing rights to all landfill gas and a share of electrical sales from the project. In 2014 the county received around $87,000 from the sale of methane gas and $110,000 from the sale of electricity, according to a news release issued by the Madison County Department of Solid Waste and Sanitation.

JBL recently expanded its lumber mill in nearby Cazenovia, New York, after purchasing land from the county as part of another P3 arrangement. The company plans to add drying kilns at the facility, and will be utilizing excess free heat from the landfill to dry lumber.

The county says that JBL is the first business to take advantage of the excess heat produced by the LFGTE facility, owned and operated by Waste Management and located at the landfill site. A second phase of the project, the county reports, will be to use the moist excess heat from the drying kilns to heat a greenhouse at the site.

Madison County also reports it has formed a power purchase agreement with Solar Liberty of Buffalo, New York, which is constructing a solar array at the site expected to produce 50 kilowatts of power, enough to cover 100 percent of the electricity needs for the landfill’s operations building.

According to the press release, the county is developing a new business park, to be called the ARE Park, focusing on low cost green power and heat produced from the methane gas generated by the landfill. The county says that businesses in the park will have access to excess heat from the LFGTE facility and electrical energy from solar projects sited at the landfill.