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DOD Cancels "Waste-to-Energy" Plan

By: Tyler Edwards
Updated: September 18, 2008
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The Department of Defense has canceled plans to build a waste energy plant at Dyess Air Force Base. On the morning of May 24, 2006, Dyess presented a first of a kind project that would use more than 40,000 tons of Abilene trash, turning it into energy, and would allow Dyess to use power during increased security and natural disaster situations.

One of the reasons Dyess was chosen was because they have been very good at keeping the environment in mind, and the plant was going to be the first 100 percent renewable energy power facility of its kind.

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