Editing Coventry, Vermont (section)

===Industry===
The Washington Electric Cooperative has four electric generators at Vermont's largest landfill in Coventry. The methane generation facility provides a third to one half of WEC's members’ electricity needs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonelectric.coop/pages/about.htm |title=About Washington Electric Coop |access-date=July 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623190617/http://www.washingtonelectric.coop/pages/about.htm |archive-date=June 23, 2008 }} retrieved July 18, 2008</ref> This facility supplies power to 6,000 households and businesses.<ref>{{cite book | via = Associated Press |title = Co-op to expand methane plant | publisher = Burlington Free Press | date = July 17, 2008}}</ref> In 2008, the coop applied to expand the plant to 8 megawatts. This increase is expected to cost $3 million.

The New England Waste Services of Vermont (Waste USA), a subsidiary of [[Casella Waste Systems]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Casella_Waste_Systems_%28CWST%29/Filing/10-K/2008/F4919589 |title=Archived copy |access-date=February 25, 2013 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904121325/http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Casella_Waste_Systems_%28CWST%29/Filing/10-K/2008/F4919589 |url-status=dead }}</ref> owns the landfill which serves much of Vermont.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lefrak |first1=Mikaela |title=Why does Vermont only have one landfill? |url=https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-02-04/why-does-vermont-only-have-one-landfill |website=Vermont Public |publisher=Vermont Public |access-date=4 April 2025}}</ref> In 2013, it was allowed to accept up to {{convert|370000|ST}} of waste annually.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Landfill clears hurdle on its way to expansion | newspaper=the Chronicle | location=[[Barton, Vermont]] | pages= 9 | date=August 30, 2017}}</ref>