Economic Benefits

• Jobs (temporary/construction and permanent)

• Turns cost item (i.e., waste treatment) into revenue-generating opportunity

• Can operate in conjunction with composting operations

• Improves rural infrastructure and diversifies rural income streams

• Digestate produced by the system can replace synthetic fertilizer or bedding purchases

 

Waste Treatment Benefits

• Natural waste treatment process

• Mature technology

• Smaller physical footprint (vs. composting)

• Reduces volume of waste for transport, land application, (vs. not using digestion)

• Very efficient decomposition

• Complete biogas capture

• Nutrient recovery and recycling

 

Environmental Benefits

• Dramatic odor reduction

• Reduced pathogen levels

• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions

• Platform for reducing nutrient runoff

• Increased crop yield

 

Energy Benefits

• Net-energy producing process

• Multiple existing biogas end-use applications, including:

  • heat-only

  • electric-only

  • combined heat and power

  • pipeline quality biomethane

  • transportation fuel

• Baseload/dispatchable energy source (vs. intermittent wind and solar)

• Distributed generation (which means lower transmission/transportation costs and higher reliability)

• Direct replacement for non-renewable fossil fuels