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DNCC Supported Projects

Wray School District Wind Turbine, Wray CO (10%)

Faced with rising energy costs and declining student enrollment, the Wray School District staff was challenged to find new ways to reduce costs while enhancing the district’s educational experience. They found a perfect solution that they couldn’t quite afford – a new utility scale wind turbine. With significant up-front financial support from NativeEnergy – and now from you! – this project is up and running and generating energy, revenue, and environmental benefits for the school district and the Wray community. Carbon offsets from this project represent a share of the CO₂ reductions estimated to be produced over the 25-year project life. Learn how we estimate.


The Focus the Nation Wind Turbine at the Williamson Family Farm (10%)

Since 1947, Elmo and Dorothy Williamson have worked the land and raised 4 children on their soybean, corn, and alfalfa farm. The Williamson’s have been stewards of the land for generations, and consistently demonstrate the utmost respect for the Earth. In 2006, the Williamson family was recognized by Rock County as Conservation Family of the Year. Today, with up-front financial support from NativeEnergy, they have a 50-ft wind turbine helping to power their farm and reduce global warming pollution. This turbine received substantial support from Clif Bar Inc. to offset emissions from the Focus the Nation national education initiative, and with the Williamsons’ enthusiastic agreement, was dedicated as the “Focus the Nation Wind Turbine.”

Like you, the Williamson’s see the climate crisis as a very real threat, which must be addressed quickly with high quality solutions. Farm families rely on the land for their very survival – as we all do!

Carbon offsets from this project represent a share of the CO₂ reductions estimated to be produced over the project’s expected 20-year life. Learn how we estimate this.



Hillcrest Saylor Family Dairy Farm Methane Project (20%)

In 2002, NativeEnergy was invited by the Pennsylvania Depts. Of Agriculture and Environmental Protection to employ our unique up-front carbon offset funding model to help finance several anaerobic digester projects that were seeking state grant funding. Among the first was the Hillcrest Saylor farm, worked by four generations of the Saylor family, from five cows in 1910 to 600 today. The Saylors work closely with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture improving soil conservation practices and manure handling techniques. They provide annual educational tours to Boy Scout groups, school tours, teachers, elderly groups and other farmers.

With NativeEnergy’s 2003 offer in hand as a significant part of their required matching funds, the Saylors were enabled to secure an Energy Harvest grant from the PA DEP. The Hillcrest Saylor anaerobic digester, now powers a 130 kW engine-generator, which provides power for all farm operations and helps to control energy costs. Carbon offsets from this project represent a share of the project’s expected long-term avoidance of fugitive emissions of methane from the farm’s baseline practice of lagoon storage of manure.
Learn how we estimate the impact.


Des Plaines Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project (60%)

Located approximately 30 minutes northwest of Chicago, Illinois, Des Plaines began as a landfill in the early 1960s, accepting waste until about 1986. The site was constructed in accordance with practices current at the time operations began. There are no regulations requiring landfill gas (LFG) collection at the landfill. Collection of LFG was initiated in 1998, and was burned in a flare until power generation was installed in 2004. LFG is the natural byproduct of anaerobic (without air) bacterial activity, which causes the organic matter that exists within landfills to decompose. The emission into the atmosphere of LFG is a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over 35% of the man-made methane gas emissions in the United States. Since methane is a major component of LFG and is also the main component of natural gas, LFG can serve as an alternative to natural gas in order to generate electrical energy. The carbon offsets from this project represent the avoidance of baseline emissions of methane from the landfill, and are verified by the Environmental Resources Trust.