Farm Power Northwest LLC creates renewable energy projects using anaerobic digesters to process dairy manure and food waste from local farms into biogas, which is used to generate electricity and heat. The company's model helps small and medium dairy farms reduce costs and emissions by providing a renewable energy source and recycling nutrients. The first project went online in 2009 and has since produced over 3 million kWh of electricity while eliminating thousands of tons of greenhouse gases.

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Farm Power Northwest LLC creates renewable energy projects
that sustain family farms, protect farmland, and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
Kevin Maas
WTIA Smart Fuels – June 3, 2010

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Background
• Small and medium-sized Puget
Sound dairy farms under pressure
• Anaerobic digesters: proven
energy-producing technology that
farmers couldn’t afford to develop
• Two brothers with a farmer-
focused develop-own-operate
model

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Standard Procedure
Dairy manure provides a
closed-loop fertilizer source Milk
Cows
Crops Lagoon
Fields
Methane
Nutrient Cycle
Positive Products
Negative Products Odor

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Electricity to PSE
How does the process actually work?
Biogas:
55% methane, 750 kW internal-
45% CO2, combustion
trace H2S engine generator
Dairy Manure:
scraped from Surplus heat to digester
concrete floor
Anaerobic Fiber
200 tons per day Bacteria:
thrive in warm, Three weeks
Food Waste: oxygen-free Separator
later
trucked from environment
processing plant
100ºF Digester Liquid

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Our Resource:
1 =
And - 1 ( ) CO2-e

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Starting Point
• We make profits on the power so we can
provide free bedding to farmers: $100k+ annually
to support local food production
• Farm Bill has provided predictable USDA grant
and loan-guarantee opportunities for digesters
•Many competing carbon offsets come from
methane capture at landfills

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Coal
Average plant size:
500 MW Natural Gas Community Power
Average plant size: Average plant size:
100 MW 1 MW
Nuclear
Average plant size:
1000 MW
Wind
Average plant size:
100 MW
Hydroelectric
Average plant size: 10,000 MW at any
200 MW given time
(Wind currently
closer to 3%)

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14
Natural Gas
12
Citygate ($
10 per Mmbtu)
8
10-Year
6 Contract
Choosing Electricity and
Available Cogeneration
4
(cents per
2
kWh) • Regulated market cuts
0
volatility risk for small
producers; standard offer
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contracts available from Puget
Sound Energy and others
• Ethanol bankruptcies shows
importance of having both
supply and sales contracts
• Ample zero-cost process heat
from combustion for electricity

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Ribbon-cutting
• first project online August 2009 after
two and a half years of work
• ceremonial starting of generator at end
of September
• over 3 million kWh produced to date

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Nutrients and Emissions
• 2,000,000 gallons of food waste
recycled (almost 8,000 tons)
• 4,000 tons CO-2e of greenhouse
gases eliminated

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Growing Local Impact
• Investment in rural agricultural economies
• Tremendous leverage possible with federal
grants and loan guarantees
• Construction jobs attract stimulus money
• Long-term cash stream for our investors
• Committed partners ready to build more
$405,000 company equity
builds $3,545,000 project

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The Future
• projects near Lynden and
Enumclaw
• raising money with SCOR;
going for Oregon
• continued operations at
Rexville

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Farm Power Lynden
Electricity to PSE
Remaining half of surplus heat to greenhouse
80% thermal
efficiency

15. In Operation
Pre-Construction
Awaiting Grants
Scouting

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Thank you!
Questions? Comments?
Farmpowernw@gmail.com 360.424.4519 www.farmpower.com