GE Energy's Onsite Biogas Power Solution Helps U.S. Dairy Farmers Reduce Site Emissions

[Fledermaus]

As lawmakers in Washington, D.C., debate new federal climate-change legislation, Wisconsin's dairy industry is leading the way in demonstrating the benefits of using cow manure methane digester biogas. In the last several years, a growing number of dairy farms in Wisconsin have installed GE Energy's Jenbacher biogas engines to generate needed renewable electricity for onsite power and the local grid.

GE's newly installed, advanced Jenbacher biogas engine technology is generating 633 kilowatts (kW) in renewable energy at the Crave Brothers Farm, LLC in Waterloo, Wisc..

"Installing GE Energy's Jenbacher biogas technology is playing an important role in our ongoing initiatives to reduce the operational costs as well as the environmental impacts of our dairy operations," said Charles Crave, one of the farm's co-owners. "We hope that other dairy farms around the country adopt similar technologies in recognition of the agricultural community's increasingly important role in addressing the country's energy and climate-change concerns."

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