Construction Underway at Renewable Energy Project in Missouri

Construction is underway in Northern Missouri on an innovative $80 million renewable energy project, developed and constructed by Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) in collaboration with Murphy-Brown of Missouri (MBM), the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.

Construction is underway in Northern Missouri on an innovative $80 million renewable energy project.

Crews are installing impermeable covers on 88 existing lagoons to harvest biogas, also called renewable natural gas (RNG), from MBM hog finishing farms using best in class anaerobic digestion technology developed and installed by RAE. The project is the largest of its kind, utilizing manure from one of the biggest concentrations of finishing hogs in the Midwest to create several hundred million cubic feet of RNG annually for regional distribution.

“We are excited to see the results of our collaboration with Smithfield and Murphy-Brown begin to take shape. This project can be a model to show how both economic and environmental benefits can be gained by using manure in a different way,” said Rudi Roeslein, president of Roeslein Alternative Energy and CEO of Roeslein & Associates, a systems integration specialist in sophisticated modular construction.