SMUD assists two Calif. dairy farms with AD projects

Two dairy farm manure anaerobic digestion projects under development in Sacramento County, Calif., are making progress and may be operational by the end of the year.

Having recently acquired Safe Harbor under the U.S. Treasury’s 1603 Program—which expired with the end of 2011 and provided qualifying renewable energy projects with a grant equal to 30 percent of the total project cost—the projects have secured the majority of necessary funding and are working on acquiring the balance, according to Marco Lemes, project manager with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Dairy Digester Incentives Program. Both also qualified for grants under the U.S. DOE’s Community Renewable Energy Deployment (CRED) grant program under the Recovery Act.

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