Category Archives: Manure to Energy

Clean Energy From Hog Manure? You Bet Your Bacon

A fenced area contains a water well with pipes, electrical equipment, and two solar panels mounted on a pole, surrounded by grass and trees.

ZERO-EMISSION SOLARS PUMP BIOGAS CONDENSATE SUMPS AT MISSOURI HOG FARMS MANURE-TO-ENERGY PROJECT

When America’s largest hog producer, Smithfield Foods, joined with one of the country’s most respected renewable-energy engineers, Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), to create Monarch Bioenergy in 2020, the concept of turning manure to renewable natural gas (RNG) at Smithfield’s sprawling Missouri farm sites took firm shape.

Hog waste went to a covered lagoon, where the decomposing manure produced methane, which was to be scrubbed and ultimately fed into natural gas pipelines.

When America’s largest hog producer, Smithfield Foods, joined with one of the country’s most respected renewable-energy engineers, Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), to create Monarch Bioenergy in 2020