Village Green Ventures LLC’s final site plan for a proposed bacteria-driven power plant at Brunswick Landing got the go-ahead Tuesday from the town’s Planning Board.

After the state Department of Environmental Protection finishes its review, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based eco-centric startup will be ready to break ground.

Founder Dave Weyburn was reluctant to speculate when that would be, but said he hoped construction would be under way “by late July or August.”

“We’ve got town approval, now we’re just waiting for the DEP permits to come through,” Weyburn said.

“Having town’s blessing is a big deal for us. We’re just happy that people seem to want us (at Brunswick Landing).”

The plant, called an anaerobic digester, will break down organic and septic waste and use the captured gas to drive equipment that generates electricity.

Weyburn said he expects the plant to produce 1 megawatt of electricity and, eventually, about 1 megawatt of heat energy. All of the energy and heat will be consumed by tenants on the base.

“A home uses about one kilowatt, and we’re going to be producing about 1,000 kilowatts,” Weyburn said.

The digester will not have a large human-based payroll. But material to be fed into the digester will have to be collected and delivered, which means additional contracts with area waste haulers, restaurants and food retailers.

Some tentative agreements are being worked out already.

“Part of this is having feed stock available, so we don’t have to start up an empty digester,” Weyburn said.

No monetary estimate yet has been established, but officials from Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority expect significant energy savings once the digester is online.

“We’re negotiating with the developers right now,” said Steve Levesque, MRRA’s executive director. “But (the energy savings) would have to be significant, because we wouldn’t have to pay the distribution charges.”

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