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Innovative arrangement produces renewable natural gas and helps Monarch Butterflies

Renewable Energy World: Today, Smithfield Foods and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) announced that they have formed a joint venture called Monarch Bioenergy to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) across Smithfield’s hog farms in Missouri.

Building on the first phase of Smithfield and RAE’s “manure-to-energy” project across nine Smithfield farms in northern Missouri, which is the largest project of its kind according to the company, Monarch Bioenergy will install and utilize infrastructure to to capture methane emissions from additional hog farms and convert them into pipeline-quality natural gas, which will be distributed to RNG markets across the country.

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