Technology Tours
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
GRO Summit Energy Tour
- Pond Biofuels Project at St. Mary’s Cement, St Mary’s – algae growing demonstration facility utilizing CO2 from the cement plant, to produce biofuels
- Canadian Biofuel Inc., Springford – commercial densified biomass fuel production facility; two Muench pellet mills, 54,000 tons/yr capacity
- Friendly Fuel Solutions, Drumbo – on-farm French biomass burner and plots of Switchgrass and Miscanthus
- Enerworks Inc., Woodstock – largest solar thermal heating and cooling project in Canada with 162 panels on a retirement home rooftop
- Quality Fertilizers, Shakespeare – pelleting of various biomass products and Cennetek boiler
Biogas Tour
- Harvest Power, London – Large scale AD system currently under construction (on-bus guided overview of project)
- Pond Biofuels Project at St. Mary’s Cement, St Mary’s – algae growing demonstration facility utilizing CO2 from the cement plant, to produce biofuels
- Greenholm Farms Ltd., Embro – dairy operation with operating PlanET anaerobic digestor
- Athlone Farms, Athlone – 140 cow dairy farm with anaerobic digester under construction
- Labatt’s Brewery, London – after 160 years of brewing this hometown plant now produces over 1 billion bottles of beer annually. Tour will focus on recent environmental upgrades including the co-gen facility, and CO2 and water recycling
