Cavendish Farms to save 2.6 million gals. of fossil fuels annually.

A Canadian potato turning to in-house fuel source to provide power. (Photo: net_efekt)

Cavendish Farms, a Canadian potato product producer has finished construction of its anaerobic digestion facility in Prince Edward Island that will generate biogas from potato waste. The ‘potato-gas’ project is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

[hw] Cavendish has used anaerobic sludge from the treatment of its wastewater as a soil conditioner for more than ten years, but in 2004 began evaluating the possibility of using converted biogas from the anaerobic digester to power the boilers for two on-site processing plants. Two years later, construction began on the addition.