Careful planning is needed because of high costs and uncertain returns from selling electricity. The first consideration is livestock numbers, said Richard Mattocks, an engineer with Environomics, a ...

A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

The New London County Farm Bureau in Connecticut wants to get more anaerobic digesters on farms. The digesters take waste from cows and food and turn it into electricity and useful by-products that ...

Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a local dairy farm into renewable natural gas. Steven Wilkinson, ...

Hennepin County has given up on building an anaerobic digester to process residents’ compostable trash because the cost is too high and other options exist to deal with organic waste. In a Jan. 16 ...

One of the next climate change solutions might be found at your local dairy farm. A team of MSU researchers are studying ways to generate renewable energy from dairy farm waste to charge electric ...

A herd of cows in a field. The digester systems at the Farmer’s Cow will process manure from dairy and chicken farms to create RNG. Photo by Lukas Hartmann/Pexels The Farmer’s Cow brand of companies ...

Warwick Township's anaerobic digester plans sparked tension between officials and residents. Supervisors voted 3-2 to approve ...

WILLMAR -- A handshake and a signed memorandum of understanding could help secure federal funding for a methane digester to be built somewhere in Kandiyohi County and in China. Methane digesters use ...