The Resource Recovery Facility (“RRF”) is the result of a decades-old innovation. An obsolete coal-fired power plant was retrofitted to allow it to generate energy from a renewable waste-based fuel known as refuse-derived fuel (“RDF”).
 | At the waste processing facility, materials delivered to the RRF are processed into RDF fuel. |
 | That RDF fuel is then conveyed to the power block facility where it is combusted and used to generate steam. |
 | That steam feeds two generators. Each year, these generators produce almost 500 million kilowatt hours of renewable electricity. |
 | This renewable energy is enough to supply all the electrical needs of the facility and send enough electricity to the grid to power more than 35,000 Connecticut homes. |
MIRA unveiled Connecticut's first landfill-based solar array. Click here more information about this award-winning solar-energy generating facility.
For years, MIRAs facilities have striven to improve relations with our neighbors through innovative odor elimination technologies, state of the art emissions controls and other initiatives. A family of bald eagles was sufficiently impressed with our efforts that they became our newest neighbors. Click here for more information.