Dive Brief:

• AgEnergy, a developer of anaerobic digesters, and Perdue Farms, a chicken processing company in Salisbury, MD, are collaborating on a waste-to-energy project on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
• The Clean Bay Biogas Project plans to develop biogas from poultry waste.
• Perdue Farms will supply 100% of the feedstock for the facility; it is estimated that the facility will process around 200,000 tons of waste annually.

Dive Insight:

AgEnergy USA is based in Hampton, NH and develops anaerobic digesters.

Perdue Farms is involved with many alternative and renewable energy projects, sourcing feedstock and partnering with companies on biodiesel, ethanol, solar and biomass projects.

Steve Schwalb, the vice president of Environmental Sustainability at Perdue Farms said, "Environmentally, this project will provide an alternative to land application for a significant amount of poultry litter, eliminating the risk of any portion of the nitrogen or phosphorous in this litter from finding its way into the Chesapeake Bay watershed."