November 05, 2015
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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Roeslein Alternative Energy (“RAE”) of St. Louis, Missouri is constructing a $120 million animal waste-to-energy facility in the State of Missouri.
The company states that waste from finishing hogs would be utilized to create and inject large quantities of renewable natural gas into the national grid system.
RAE states that Smithfield Foods Missouri hog production facilities would be involved in what it characterizes as the “largest livestock manure-to-energy project of its kind.”
The project development references two phases.
Phase One is stated to be nearly 50% complete and involves installation of impermeable covers and flare systems on 88 existing manure lagoons at Smithfield Foods hog finishing farms in northern Missouri.
Phase Two is stated to involve fabricating and installing technology to purify the biogas captured by the impermeable covers and developing an inter-connection to a natural gas pipeline operated by ANR.
Renewable natural gas is projected to enter the pipeline in the Summer of 2016.
RAE lists as key impacts of the project when completed:
- The hog manure from the project will produce approximately 2.2 billion cubic feet of pipeline quality RNG, or the equivalent of 17 million gallons of diesel fuel annually.
- Approximately 850,000 tons of CO2 equivalent methane will be prevented from reaching the atmosphere.
- The project is providing $120 million in new work for Missouri supply chain, manufacturing, and construction companies and their employees.
Click here to download a copy of the company news release.
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