Renewable energy racetrack.(PUERTO RICO)

RENEWABLE ENERGY RACETRACK. The owners of the Camarero Racetrack will build an $8.4-million renewable energy system that will supply enough electricity to cover the facility's needs and leave a surplus to sell to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa), reports Caribbean Business (Nov. 4, 2010). Grupo Camarero is applying for the construction permits to install a BioDigestor plant, designed by Wisconsin-based GDH Inc., at the Canovanas track that will convert solid and liquid wastes from inside and outside the facility into fertilizer and methane biogas that will feed Jenbacher conversion motors generating 3 megawatts of electricity. The company signed a 20-year power-purchase agreement with Prepa, said Camarero President & CEO Ervin Rodriguez Velez. He said the plant will save the racetrack $2.4 million in annual operating costs, including $1 million a year in electricity bills, $1.2 million in solid-waste disposal and $206,338 in disposal of used water. The plant will take six months to build, said Rodriguez, adding that the Environmental Quality Board has already approved an Environmental Impact Statement for the GDH-designed plants, which include a $500,000 GDH-designed BioFinish recycling and compost plant that started operating two years ago at the track. Six employees work at this plant. The BioFinish compost plant has kept solid waste from filling 171,915 cubic yards of landfill space and generates 10,950 tons of compost a year, reducing the cost of fertilizer for agriculture, said Rodriguez, who contrasted the $10 per ton for compost with the $30 to $50 for fertilizer.

Renewable energy racetrack.(PUERTO RICO)

RENEWABLE ENERGY RACETRACK. The owners of the Camarero Racetrack will build an $8.4-million renewable energy system that will supply enough electricity to cover the facility's needs and leave a surplus to sell to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa), reports Caribbean Business (Nov. 4, 2010). Grupo Camarero is applying for the construction permits to install a BioDigestor plant, designed by Wisconsin-based GDH Inc., at the Canovanas track that will convert solid and liquid wastes from inside and outside the facility into fertilizer and methane biogas that will feed Jenbacher conversion motors generating 3 megawatts of electricity. The company signed a 20-year power-purchase …