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Tagged: Swine

Business & Economy
6:10 am
Wed June 20, 2012

Power Companies Won't Meet Pig Poop Electricity Mandate

Swine Waste
Credit Asma Khalid
Farmer Loyd Bryant (left) with developers Tanja Vujic and Marvin Cavanaugh next to a microtubine that's generating electricity from swine waste
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By Asma Khalid

Back in 2007, North Carolina passed the first renewable energy mandate in the Southeast. The new rules say that by the end of this year at least three percent of all electricity needs to come from green sources. The power companies say they'll easily meet that, but they're going to come up short on two fronts. The law includes a provision for electricity from poultry waste and hog manure. The utilities say they can't meet either one of those terms.

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