In North Carolina, lots of hog waste — but can it scale as an energy source?

A new project is helping Duke Energy meet a mandate to generate a small portion of its power from pig waste.

The molecules combusted at a North Carolina power plant now include some that originated not from fossil deposits locked deep in the earth’s crust, but from a group of nearby hog farms in Duplin County.

By Elizabeth Ouzts.

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