Roeslein Renewables proudly celebrates the signing of the landmark "One Big, Beautiful Bill" legislation by President Donald ...

Digesters work by heating manure to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit, warm enough for bacteria to generate methane gas that can be trapped and used to power an electric generator, which is connected ...

Iowa has permitted 15 new digester facilities since 2021, when the Legislature passed a law allowing animal feeding operations with digesters to exceed the state’s limit of 8,500 animal units.

For now, at least, manure digesters are tailored to the largest livestock operations producing millions of gallons of manure. One of the biggest units in the nation is under construction in ...

MADISON - New research conducted by environmental groups argues that manure digesters, seen as a solution to pollution from large-scale livestock farms, do more harm than good because of other ...

Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The addition of food waste in co-digesters enables small and mid-sized ...

St. ALBANS - Digestion, as most of us know it, fares poorly when rushed. So goes the pace of approval for an electricity-producing manure digester in St. Albans – a facility that also proposes ...

From the outside, his manure digester looks like a big gray bunker — a rectangular concrete block about waist-high, 274 feet long by 75 feet wide — and it’s covered in a foam insulation that ...

The manure is heated to 100 degrees, and remains in the digester for about 15 days. The manure produces biogas, which is 60 percent methane and 40 percent carbon dioxide.

ST. ALBANS - Vermont’s largest utility says it’s working with farmers to build a manure digester in St. Albans that will turn cow manure from three farms into electricity and reduce ...

Threemile Canyon Farms already is home to the largest cow manure digester in the western United States, producing electricity, not natural gas. It started in 2009 with a small digester ...

Novilla, a Michigan company, recently started construction on another manure digester system in Winneshiek County that is opposed by some residents. The Iowa DNR issued permits for the two ...