Fujifilm Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc. is reducing CO2 emissions by about 15,000 tons or 13% per year at its facilities in Greenwood, South Carolina. This comes to about 330,000 euros* in carbon offset credits per year. The methane gas utilization project outlined below is contributing to this effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane piped in from landfills will take the place of about 30% of the natural gas consumed by the factories. Fujifilm plans to use 197 billion Btu's of energy from the landfill per year, enough to heat over 5,000 homes.
This has three major advantages:
|Project A: Project to use landfill methane gas efficiently||Project B: Project to improve boiler energy usage through such steps as changing control systems||Total of A + B|
|CO2 reductions||About 10,000 tons per year*||About 5,000 tons per year||About 15,000 tons per year|
|Investment||About US$ 280,000||About US$ 340,000||About US$ 620,000|
|Cost efficiency of CO2 reduction**||About 220,000 euros per year||About 110,000 euros year||About 330,000 euros per year|