EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Two companies plan to tap gas from a southern Indiana landfill's decomposing garbage and turn it into enough power to light more than 1,500 homes.

Veolia Environmental Services and Vectren's Energy Systems Group say they will develop a plant next to Blackfoot Landfill that would
clean the landfill's gas and burn it to generate electricity. Officials say the power generated by the plant will then be sold to Vectren.

Energy Systems Group president Jim Adams says the gas-burning
plant will initially generate about 1.6 megawatts of power and grow to 5 megawatts through at least two expansions over the next five years.

The plant about 35 miles northeast of Evansville is tentatively
scheduled to go online next year.

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