A PPL Corporation subsidiary’s renewable energy work has been named a “Project of the Year” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

PPL Energy Services partnered with the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Turkey Hill Dairy to design and build a 3.2-megawatt methane-to-energy power generation system in Manor Township, Pa. PPL Energy Services installed, owns and operates the energy facility while the authority installed the system that provides the gas.

“PPL is committed to environmental excellence, and we’re proud to be a part of this project, which is providing green energy and reducing emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas,” said Steve Gabrielle, business development manager of PPL Energy Services.

The authority provides methane gas daily from its Frey Farm and Creswell landfills to PPL, which uses the gas to power two generators. PPL then sells the power to PJM Interconnection, which operates the electricity transmission grid in this region. Power from the landfill produces enough energy to supply 2,000 homes.

In addition, PPL provides heat, which is a byproduct of the process, to the adjacent Turkey Hill Dairy. The heat provides Turkey Hill with about 85 percent of the thermal needs of its operations, saving about 240,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

The award was presented Tuesday (1/23) in Baltimore during the EPA’s 10th Annual Landfill Methane Outreach Program Partner and Project of the Year Awards Ceremony.

PPL Energy Services, the renewable energy arm of PPL Corporation, develops, builds, finances and operates on-site energy generation facilities for industrial and commercial customers throughout the northeastern U.S. through technologies that use renewable fuels such as landfill gas, the sun and biomass.

Headquartered in Allentown, Pa., PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) controls more than 11,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets, and delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America.

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Cutline: A gas well head is used to extract methane gas at the landfill for use in PPL’s 3.2-megawatt methane-to-energy power generation system in Manor Township, Pa.