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Farm Methane Power

From 1940 to 2007, the carbon emissions footprint from producing and delivering 1 gallon of milk has been reduced by more than 60% due to increased production, improved distribution and efficiency. Nonetheless, livestock-based farming still generates significant greenhouse gases, particularly on dairies.  In the 1980’s, after the first energy crisis, a few hundred waste-to-energy digester systems were built in the US, utilizing captured biogas to generate electrical power. Like solar and wind systems at the time, the digester technology was not mature and falling electricity prices halted their expansion.
 
Today, rising energy costs and multiple environmental concerns, especially methane pollution, are demanding their return.  With a digester, farmers can consume less heating fuel and displace electricity on the power grid, keeping tons and tons of CO2 out of the air.  They’ll also help to control local odor problems and improve nutrient management to reduce water pollution into local waterways. And NativeEnergy customers are helping family dairy farms afford these systems by purchasing the renewable energy credits or CO2-equivalent emission reductions when the methane is destroyed.  We call it Remooable Energy.

• Brubaker Family Dairy Farm Methane Project
  
• Wanner Family Dairy Farm Methane Project
• Hillcrest Saylor Family Dairy Farm Methane Project
• Schrack Family Farm methane project
• Dovan Family Farm methane project
• Penn England Family Dairy Farm Methane Project