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PurposeEnergy announced on 19 October that it had commissioned an industrial food-waste and wastewater pre-treatment facility in Minster, Ohio. It processes organic residuals piped from Danone USA’s nearby yogurt factory alongside residuals from other regional food and beverage producers.

The company expects the facility to produce about 50,000 MMBtu of renewable biogas per year at full operation. The gas is piped to a dedicated boiler at Danone’s plant to replace conventional natural gas for process heat. This is a full-operation projection: the release says the facility is operational and ramping, without reporting measured annual energy output.