Now, more than ever as we recover from the current recession, communities need viable projects that put our workforce back to work. The Montgomery Project will be a catalyst to boost the local Orange County economy, creating both new permanent and temporary construction jobs. The construction phase of the post-collection separation structure, silos, gasifier and power island, and the expansion of the existing construction and demolition debris structure, is expected to last 18 months, and create approximately 318 jobs in Orange County at an increase labor income of almost $14,000,000.00 during 2010 & 2011.

The new facility will require substantial investments in specialized equipment used for gasification and energy generation. Much of this equipment is not produced by Orange County industries, and will be purchased from outside Orange County. Thus the economic impact of the project construction will extend beyond Orange County to benefit industries and jobs in other parts of the State and Country. The overall economic impact for project construction during 2010 and 2011 is $146,076,591.00 with labor income of approximately $39,519,861.00 including the Orange County benefits. Temporary construction workers jobs will include laborers, equipment operators, carpenters, electricians, teamsters, trucker drivers and plumbers. When operating at maximum capacity, the Montgomery Project will create approximately 82 new ongoing union plant, “GREEN” jobs. These will be union plant jobs, including senior management positions, skilled equipment operators, plant maintenance personnel, fleet coordination and scale personnel to serve in clerical functions, roll-off drivers and sorters. In addition, when at maximum capacity, the project will retain 21 existing union plant jobs at Taylor Recycling Facility.

A facility similar to the Montgomery Project can be supported by urban centers with a population of 250,000 or more, within a 30 mile radius trucking logistic for waste generation. The Montgomery Project holds substantial opportunity for commercial replication, since almost 75% of the United States’ population lives in such areas. Each stand-alone facility will generate approximately 24MW gross, sufficient to supply power for 27,000 homes, helping to augment regional grids with environmentally-superior green energy, with low emissions, and not derived from fossil fuel. Expected cost of electricity produced, over a 20 year period, is less than 5.5 cents per KW at todays costs.

Applications that match the Montgomery Project system in scale are most commonly replacing boilers and other energy equipment, and displacing power use at relatively large facilities, such as chemical plants, steel mills, pulp and paper mills, jails, hospitals, malls, or government or college campuses. Facilities replicated using Montgomery Project as a reference plant will compete directly with transfer stations, landfills and incinerators by charging competitive tipping fees for disposal of MSW, C&D and wood waste.