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Derby utility partnership helped company win XPRIZE; city says pilot saved about $18,000 a year
Summary
Derby officials and utilities staff described a pilot with Vaultedip that helped the company win an XPRIZE carbon-removal award and provided the city roughly $18,000 in annual savings by changing biosolids disposal. Vaultedip said Derby’s tour of the wastewater plant was key to validating its approach.
Derby officials said a city pilot that supplied biosolids to a private carbon‑removal company helped that company win a major XPRIZE award and provided modest annual savings to the city.
Dylan Curtis, assistant public works director for utilities, told the Derby City Council on June 24 that Derby approved a contract in September and fully contracted in November with Vaultedip, a company that injects or otherwise sequesters organic waste underground. Curtis introduced Vaultedip’s representative and described the city’s role in a pilot that…
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