Westminster Farms Inc., a dairy farm located in Vermont, and Green Mountain Power, which provides electricity to 90,000 residents in Vermont, are working together to create green energy electricity for local residents and businesses. It is a joint investment between the two, not only to make Vermont a greener state, but also to cut the cost of electricity production during these hard economic times.

Westminster Farms invested $700,000 and Green Mountain Power invested $175,000 into this green electric power project, but it also got help from both the U.S. and Vermont Departments of Agriculture.

About this green electricity project

You may not know this, but cow manure is a huge contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s also a big source of pollution when it runs off into surrounding beds of water. To eliminate these harmful effects of manure the Vermont dairy farm will use an anaerobic digester to mix, heat and break down the manure.  Then the manure will be used to produce methane biogas, which is used to generate electricity.

The liquid waste will be used as fertilizer and any other solid waste will be used as cattle bedding (which replaces sawdust - saving the farm over $80,000).

Right now the green electricity that is created from this project powers about 250 Vermont homes every day. If this project continues to prove to be a success both financially and environmentally, then it looks like Vermont is going to be a great green state!

Source: TriplePundit.com