Making Garbage into Clean Energy Proposed for St. John By Don Buchanan June 12, 2024

The territory needs good news on the energy production front, and what better news could the V. I. Public Services Commission get Tuesday than progress on a project to convert all the garbage on St. John into fuel for a power plant? The power could then be sold to the financially-strapped Water and Power Authority for less than the authority is paying to produce power with fossil fuel.

Dan Levin, a founder at Advanced Sustainable Technologies, told the commission that the project could be operational by the end of next calendar year. He said a draft power-purchase agreement with WAPA had already been written, and an agreement with the Waste Management Authority was being worked on.

Commissioner David Hughes told Levin, “If you aren’t looking for cash, Waste Management will be happy to give you its trash.”