" In essence, that means the Japan that spent billions on landfillprojects would spend more to create a better social environment, including turning landfills back into "beautiful wetlands.
These hedges effectively convert these variable rate bank loans into fixed rate loans, better matching the interest expense from the loans to the income from the landfill gas projects they finance.
Waste-to-energy and landfill-gas projects are likely to benefit most from green pricing, at least at first, because their costs are already close to those of conventional power producers.