The San Jose City Council has authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Memorandum of Understanding to develop guidelines and potential lease terms for the development of an organics-to-energy biogas facility on a 40acre site near the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plan. The biogas facility is planned to be constructed and operated by Zanker Road Biogas. If the negotiations for the MOU are successful, the City of San Jose would issue the lease to Zero Waste Energy Development Co. Inc., a partnership between GreenWaste Recovery and their sister company, Zanker Road Resource Management. For this project, GreenWaste would partner with Harvest Power, Inc.-a company funded in part by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The facility could take in up to 150,000tns of organic waste per year to process and produce energyfrom waste what would have been destined for a landfill. The proposed Zanker Road Biogas project would be developed in three phases, with each designed to increase capacity by 50,000tns/yr of organic materialsa combination of primarily food waste and the organic portion of the municipal solid waste streamand produce two products: a renewable biogas containing methane and high-quality compost.