A Maryland company has announced plans to build what could be the first large-scale facility on the Delmarva Peninsula for converting poultry manure and other organic waste into energy. Bioenergy DevCo, an ABC member based in Columbia, MD has struck a 20-year deal with Perdue Farms to take over the composting operation Perdue has in Delaware. The company said it plans to expand that and build an anaerobic digester on the same 220-acre site that will be able to treat 100,000 tons of manure and poultry processing byproducts a year. More >>
