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Electricity Supply <br /> Hometown BoEnergy <br /> Now Producing Electricity from Biomass <br /> Hometown BioEnergy diversifies MMPA's renewable portfolio <br /> with dispatchable, on-peak renewable energy. <br /> Located in the MMPA member community of \' 7,f-- <br /> Le Sueur, Hometown BioEnergy is an 8 MW <br /> biomass facility that is the largest of its kind < ` <br /> in the United States. The facility was placed ., _ - <br /> in service on December 18, 2013. <br /> The facility uses anaerobic digestion technology . - <br /> d <br /> to produce biogas from agricultural and food `` ` <br /> t_. <br /> processing wastes.The biogas is then burned in 1• <br /> reciprocating engines to produce electricity.The • i <br /> facility also creates two valuable by-products— Senator Amy Klobuchar tours the facility <br /> with Kelsey Dillon of Avant Energy. <br /> a liquid by-product to be used by local farmers <br /> as fertilizer and a dried digestate that has a wastes to create a renewable source of elec- <br /> number of uses including boiler fuel, soil tricity that flows directly into the Le Sueur <br /> amendment, and animal bedding. Anaerobic power system. <br /> digestion was selected as a technology because <br /> The project adapted European technology <br /> it is especially well suited to the high moisture <br /> content of Minnesota's agricultural and food to the U.S. with an aggressive twelve-month <br /> processing wastes. construction schedule. As the photo on the <br /> left shows, the final result is an aesthetically <br /> Hometown BioEnergy supports the local pleasing facility that fits the local community. <br /> community by collecting and processing local <br /> la i i 1 g', 1 ¢ _, . <br /> As� ��liL iii l ` , -„�� , -.._^ 1� �.k„p. lu.�y#5 <br /> s,A� ,T.;, , , _ 1 1, �. vg <br /> i:. ` •_ _ 40.,...600' - a. <br /> 2013 MMPA Annual Report 17 <br />