Sioux Center Looks to Local Dairy Farms for Renewable Energy
Sioux Center is looking to local dairy farmers to help supplement the town’s natural gas supply.
The northwest Iowa town will construct a pipeline from surrounding dairy farms to bring in renewable energy from a new source: cow manure.
The manure from three different dairy farms will be put into digesters, which break down the waste and create natural gas. Once scrubbed and monitored, the gas will then be pumped directly to the town’s distribution system and sold to Sioux Center.