Anaerobic Digestion

Middlebury Resource Recovery Center, Middlebury Industrial Park, Middlebury, Vermont, USA. PurposeEnergy’s first award under the Vermont Standard Offer, the MRRC is a merchant facility, designed for both piped and trucked feedstocks. Cheese waste from Agri-Mark/Cabot cheddar, a whey plant, local brewery waste, and byproducts from distilling, hard cider and kombucha tea production will be co-digested. This plant will generate >1MW of electricity for the Vermont grid and will eliminate 278 tanker truck trips each month.

PurposeEnergy developed the highly efficient Tribrid-Bioreactor™ design and superior end-to-end process is uniquely designed to treat organic byproducts and wastewater from your food or beverage plant without trucking or burdening public waste treatment resources, this creates a positive environmental impact and substantial cost savings. ­PurposeEnergy waste-to-energy plants are built on our robust, uniquely patented, technology featuring self-buffering operation, a small physical footprint and the separation of hydraulic and organic treatment zones. The process cleans the incoming feedstocks by converting the organics, in the wastewater and other streams, into biogas – a renewable fuel.

BCA provided exclusive financial advisory services to PurposeEnergy on their Middlebury and St. Albans projects. The Middlebury project included construction financing, a Vermont Economic Development Authority subordinated loan, investment tax credit monetization, and permanent senior secured debt financing. For St. Albans the advisory services were primarily monetization of the investment tax credits.