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Thompson, Conn. (Nov. 19, 2020) – Earlier this summer, ground was broken at Fort Hill Farms in Thompson to begin the construction of Connecticut’s first biogas dairy digester system that will recycle food waste and manure into renewable energy and soil products. The project is moving forward thanks to a partnership between the farm, Live Oak Bank, the Connecticut Green Bank, and Ag-Grid Energy. [...]

A Connecticut dairy farm and a Pennsylvania energy firm have partnered in a project to promote renewable energy and sustainability. This spring, Fort Hill Farms of Thompson, CT, and Ag-Grid Energy of Kennett Square, PA, joined together to form the dairy digester Fort Hill Ag-Grid LLC. The ag-grid project’s goal is to complete and begin operation of an anaerobic digester at the farm’s Connecticut location by year’s end. [...]

As a young, female farm owner of Fort Hill Farms, Kies Orr is used to breaking new ground. In that way, she and Rashi Akki, CEO of Ag-Grid Energy, have more than a little in common. As a result, to many, it’s no surprise that these two leading women and the teams they’ve built have broken new ground this month in Connecticut. Construction has now commenced at Fort Hill farms to build a biogas system that will recycle food waste and manure, into renewable energy and soil products.[...]

Hytone Farms received a grant from CT Transition Grant to develop their digester project with Ag-Grid Energy. Ag-Grid Energy is excited to see progress in Hytone Farm Digester development with the support from Connecticut Department of Agriculture. Thank you Commissioner Hulburt and the entire CT Dept of Ag team. https://www.facebook.com/ConnecticutGrown [...]

Mass Live recently published an article on the opening of a new anaerobic digestion and depackaging facility in Granville. The facility, which is located on the family-owned Rockwood Farm and was developed by Ag-Grid Energy, will process enough food waste to generate 3.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. The project received outside grant funding, including $500,000 from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, $250,000 from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental […]

2019 Project of the Year Finalists Named ABC Biogas Industry Awards and Dinner | October 29 We are excited to announce this year’s finalists for the 2019 ABC Biogas Industry Awards. This year, we received many nominations for great anaerobic digestion and landfill projects across the country and these are the finalists from which top winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 29. Each project offers a unique example of how […]

GRANVILLE — Rockwood Farm  has 600 cows and one 800,000-gallon stomach. The “stomach,” an 18-foot-deep tank of cow manure and food waste slurry, is really an anaerobic digester. Inside, natural microorganisms from the cow’s digestive tract grow in waste heated to 100 degrees, or about the same temperature as the inside of a cow. The microbes make carbon dioxide and methane, gases that can be heard bubbling away beneath the crusty […]

Time is running out to take advantage of local, sustainable Cow Power. Save your town money while supporting dairy farmers. Save money by partnering with Western Massachusetts dairy farms. We supply towns and schools with low cost green power and support local agriculture. It’s called Hampshire Cow Power. Hampshire Cow Power is a program of HCG’s Hampshire Renewables, where participating municipal buildings receive a 15% discount on net metering credits […]