Biogas Has Potential to Play a Role as Canada Transitions from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy
Chris Perry tried for years to make a go of producing methane from farm waste to generate baseload electricity for his family’s big potato-growing operation near Lethbridge, Alberta. Any excess power was sent to the provincial grid.
Standing beside his two cylindrical anaerobic digester units on a recent cloudless afternoon, the air hot and pungent, Mr. Perry explained how his attempt at building a do-it-yourself circular economy with his brother, Harold, looked ideal on paper: Rather than sending a stew of decomposing potatoes and other waste to the landfill, the fourth-generation farmer captured the methane as a fuel.