Environmental Power
takes on partner for Texas manure-gas plant
Sept. 14 -- Environmental Power Corp. is adding a partner to its
Huckabay Ridge manure gas plant being constructed near Stephenville,
Texas.
The Portsmouth, N.H.-based company is teaming with South-Tex Treaters
Inc., an Odessa, Texas, company that cleans, compresses and treats
gases.
Environmental Power´s Microgy Inc. subsidiary will finance, design,
construct and own the digester portion of the site. South-Tex will do
the same for the gas cleaning and compression portion of the operation.
The company also will be in charge of connecting the plant to the local
natural gas distribution network.
Both companies will equally manage the project, and Microgy will hold
60 percent economic interest in the partnership and sale of gas.
The Huckabay Ridge facility will use eight 916,000-gallon digesters
to process manure from up to 10,000 cows. The plant´s annual biogas
production will have an energy content equivalent to about 12,700
gallons of heating oil per day.
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