For the moment, those offsets are restricted to investments in four sectors: forestry, urban forestry, «
dairy digesters» and the destruction of ozone - depleting substances.
Not exact matches
The many additional sustainability programs that Albert Straus has implemented at the
dairy and creamery include methane -
digester technology to convert
dairy waste into energy, an extensive water - reuse system and production of milk in reusable glass bottles.
First Milk, a leading and 100 % farmer - owned
dairy co-operative in the UK, set up an anaerobic
digester (AD) at its Lake District creamery.
We are also partnering with the US Innovation Center for
Dairy to strategically locate additional dairy based anaerobic digesters throughout the supply c
Dairy to strategically locate additional
dairy based anaerobic digesters throughout the supply c
dairy based anaerobic
digesters throughout the supply chain.
The methane
digester on the Straus Organic
Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.
To put that into perspective, if two - thirds of California
dairies added methane
digesters to their manure management practices, the reduction in emissions would be the equivalent of taking about one million passenger vehicles off the road, according to Straus Family Creamery's calculations.
Operating since 2004, the methane
digester provides enough renewable energy to power the entire
dairy farm, charge Albert Straus» electric car and other farm vehicles.
Microgy of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has licensed Danish
digester technology and, without subsidies, started building plants on five Wisconsin
dairies.
Kan believes current technology — lagoons for
dairy manure management — could be upgraded to anaerobic
digesters covered and mixed with biochar.
NativeEnergy helped the Saylor family install an anaerobic methane
digester on their
dairy farm.
Following our success with manure
digester projects on the Schrack and Dovan family farms, Fred and Cindy England ramped up a manure
digester on their 700 - cow family
dairy farm in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, with upfront funding from NativeEnergy.
A small
dairy farmer gets capital to install
digesters on his farm to control methane emissions.»
The
dairies have excess capacity in their
digesters, they take organic waste from several restaurants and grocery stores in the local community, and is an added benefit of the project.
Scenic View was not only the first
dairy in Michigan to install an anaerobic
digester, it was also the first project in the United States generating both electricity and pipeline - grade natural gas.
However, the capital outlay for anaerobic
digesters range from 500K to millions of dollars and only 20 of New York's 5,200
dairy farms have an operating
digester.
The
digester will be hosted at Ritter
Dairy's dry cow facility, which will also be linked by pipe to the DeGroot farm across the street.
NativeEnergy helped install a methane
digester on the Mains
Dairy Farm in southern Pennsylvania.
The Innovation Center for U.S.
Dairy Exit provides information about production possibilities and market values of the products from mature anaerobic
digesters.
NativeEnergy helped fund improvements to a manure
digester that powered the Noblehurst
Dairy Farm with renewable energy.
The methane
digester on the Straus Organic
Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.
And a plan to provide the Farmers Cow
dairy cooperative with financing for an anaerobic
digester to turn cow manure into energy became only a loan guarantee, forcing the cooperative to find the funding elsewhere.
Project type: Farm Power What they do: Manure from the
dairy is fed into an anaerobic
digester where the methane is captured and used for energy production.
The state has set aside $ 50 million to help
dairies set up
digesters, but farmers say that's not nearly enough to equip the state's roughly 1,500
dairies.
I have worked with both the private and public sectors and have secured $ 4 million in grant funding from NYS for two
dairy farm
digesters and developed a base knowledge of the process.