Focus on Energy awards $973K for bioenergy projects
From an article in The Capital Times:
Focus on Energy, Wisconsin’s energy efficiency and renewable energy initiative, announced that it has awarded grants totaling more than $973,000 to help finance the installation of five Wisconsin bioenergy projects.
Bioenergy is energy derived from any biological material that can be used as fuel; this fuel is burned or converted in systems that produce heat, electricity, or both heat and power. The bioenergy projects being completed include anaerobic digesters and a biomass wood energy system.
When completed, the projects will generate approximately 837 kilowatts and 6,232,300 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, enough to power 626 average Wisconsin homes and provide the equivalent heating for 1,336 homes. The annual environmental benefits of the five projects are equivalent to offsetting the burning of 3,116 tons of coal, or the emissions from 2,109 cars and the release of 14,465 tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.
The grants went to anaerobic digestion projects at Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy, Kewaunee; Quantum Dairy, Weyauwega; Volm Farms, Kewaskum; and United Liquid Waste Recyclers, Watertown; and a biomass wood energy system at Action Floor Systems, Mercer.
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