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    Community Renewable Energy

    Goshen,
    IN

    Welcome to Goshen,
    Indiana
    Population: 33,034 humans
    And a lot
    of cows.
    LIKE MOST AMERICAN TOWNS,

    PRODUCES A LOT OF
    Americans waste around

    411 pounds of food


    per person every year.
    And the average cow produces

    140 pounds of manure


    every single day.
    Handling all that waste can be a
    major expense
    and a big headache.
    That’s why Green Cow Power & DVO Inc
    built an anaerobic digester
    GREEN COW POWER & DVO
    KNOW
    ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS
    CONVERT FOOD WASTE & MANURE TO

    BIOGAS
    AND ODORLESS
    FERTILIZER
    Green Cow Power partnered with

    local businesses to collect

    food waste
    Anaerobic
    Digester and with five dairy farms

    to send manure
    to their digester.
    We call this a hub and spoke model.

    Anaerobic
    Digester
    The manure is pumped through a set of
    underground pipes.
    While the
    food waste
    is trucked in each day.
    The combined manure and food waste
    produce enough biogas to generate

    3.15 MW of Electricity.
    ENOUGH TO POWER

    HOMES FOR ONE YEAR.

    THAT’S 16%
    OF ALL THE HOUSEHOLDS IN

    GOSHEN.
    But Green Cow Power
    wasn’t finished yet.
    Biogas also
    heats water…
    Some of that water regulates the

    digester’s temperature
    keeping it operating year-round.
    The rest gets pumped back to each farm to

    heat barn floors


    which keeps cows warm in the winter.
    solids, which the
    And biogas isn’t the
    farms use for
    only product of
    animal bedding…
    anaerobic digestion.

    The remaining and liquids,


    sludge is which they use
    separated into… as high-quality
    fertilizer
    The system even allows for

    phosphorus recovery
    to be used on the farm or sold.
    The hub and spoke model
    gives Green Cow Power the
    scale to offset costs
    Turning waste management from a
    cost center

    into several new


    revenue streams.
    The design has even won several awards.

    Michiana Area Council of Governments


    2016 Clean Air Awards
    Partners for Clean Air Award

    American Biogas Council


    2015 Biogas Industry Awards
    Agricultural Project of the Year
    America’s farmers aren’t just
    growing food…
    they’re growing the
    economy.
    And protecting the environment
    while they’re at it.
    Visit epa.gov/agstar to learn more

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