Fuel From Dairy Manure, Now Powered by the Sun: Maas Energy Works Completes Solar Power Project
In late September, Maas Energy Works successfully completed a $6.4 million project to power its Lakeside Pipeline dairy biogas upgrading facility with solar electricity, offsetting approximately 90% of the plant's power consumption. Lakeside Pipeline, located near Hanford, processes manure from more than 10 dairy farms, to generate biogas fuel. That biogas is purified, compressed, and injected into the natural gas pipeline to create millions of gallons per year of carbon-negative transportation fuel. And now, that work is being done using solar power.