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July 11, 2008
Cargill Environmental Finance: Saving green while staying green
In one of Cargill Connects' largest reader polls, 1655 of Cargill employees responded by telling us how they are trying to be more "green" in their daily lives.
The two most common ways are: turning off the water while brushing your teeth (62.11%) and using energy efficient light bulbs (64.83%).
Cargill is also doing more to make our future brighter and greener and that's thanks to Cargill Environmental Finance.
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July 3, 2008
Cargill to convert waste to energy on Cassava Plant in Thailand
SINGAPORE – Cargill today announced the construction of an anaerobic digester at its Starch and Sweeteners Asia (SSA) cassava starch plant in Borabu, Thailand. The digester will capture and convert the cassava production effluent into more than 2,400 tones of methane gas per year that will be used to generate onsite energy. The project will also reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of 510,000 tones of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere over a 10-year period. Co-products from the process will be used as organic fertilizer to enrich local farmland and to reduce the use of fertilizers.
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April 21, 2008
Cargill & PT Budi Acid Jaya Tbk to convert waste to energy on Indonesian cassava starch plants
SINGAPORE – Cargill announced today the signing of the third agreement with PT Budi Acid Jaya Tbk, on the construction, financing and management of an anaerobic digester projects on their Terbanggi site in Lampung, with total annual production capacity of 60,000 metric tones of cassava starch. Every year, the digester will capture and convert the cassava effluent from the plant into 3,640 tones of methane gas thereby preventing the release of 540,000 metric of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere over the course of ten years. The project will also produce 19,000 MWh of renewable electricity yearly for on-site use. Cargill Environmental Finance (CEF) will oversee the anaerobic digestion technology of this project and carbon credits will be generated under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism.
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April 11, 2008
Cargill to convert waste to energy on 2 Hog Farms in The Philippines
SINGAPORE – Cargill today announced the commissioning of 2 anaerobic digester projects on 2 sites of the Amigo Agri Industrial Development Corp & Excel Farms hog operation in Bulacan, Luzon, The Philippines. Every year, the digesters will capture and convert the pig manure from the farms into 910 tones of methane gas that will be used to generate 8,800 Mwh electricity over a 10 year period. For the same period the project will also reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of 190,000 tones of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere. Co-products from the process and digested solids will be used as organic fertilizer to enrich the site’s surrounding farmlands.
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January-February 2008
Environmental Finance promotes biomass energy in Third World
Cargill Environmental Finance (CEF) has launched a series of renewable energy projects in developing countries that will generate carbon credits that can be traded on global climate exchanges.
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Oct 30, 2007
Cargill to reduce greenhouse gas at palm oil plantation
SINGAPORE – Cargill today announced plans for an anaerobic digester at its CTP Harapan Sawit Lestari Palm Oil Mill and Plantation in Manis Mata, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The custom-designed Managed Engineered POME Digester (MEP) will capture and convert gasses generated by the decomposition of organic matter in the palm oil mill effluent (POME) into more than 2,600 tonnes of methane gas (or about 3,800,000 cubic meters) per year –gas that in the future will be used to generate onsite energy. The project will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent of 540,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere over 10 years. Co-products from the process will be used as organic fertilizer to enrich the palm oil plantation and to reduce the use of other fertilizers.
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Oct 29, 2007
Cargill to develop “green” biomass energy system at ALCON-Honduras facility
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras – Cargill today announced it will convert from conventional fuel oil to biomass to power its ALCON-Honduras animal nutrition facility in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. A soon-to-be-installed biomass boiler is expected to convert approximately 12,620 tons of shredded wood and sawdust per year into energy to run the facility, replacing the consumption of about 436,800 gallons of processed fuel oil annually.
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Oct 24, 2007
Cargill to convert waste to energy on Indonesian Cattle Feed Lot
Singapore – Cargill today announced the start of construction of an anaerobic digester project on PT Santosa Agrido’s Lampung Bekri 23,000-cattle feedlot operation in Lampung / Sumatera, Indonesia. Every year, the digester will capture and convert the cattle effluent from the feedlot into 900 tones of methane gas that will be used to generate energy for the feedlot. The project will also reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of 188,000 tones of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere over a 10-year period. Co-products from the process and digested solids will be used as organic fertilizer to enrich the feedlot farming activities in growing corn for their cattle feed.
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Oct 2, 2007
Cargill & PT Budi Acid Jaya Tbk to convert waste to energy on Indonesian Cassava Starch Plants
SINGAPORE – Cargill today announced an agreement with PT Budi Acid Jaya Tbk to construct, finance and manage anaerobic digesters at their cassava starch plants in Way Jepara and Unit 6 - Lampung, Sumatra. The digesters will capture and convert cassava effluent from the two plants into 4,500 tones of methane gas per year. The methane will be used to power gas generators to produce electricity for the plants. The project will reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of 950,000 tons of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere over a 10-year period. The technology, which is being managed and funded by Cargill’s Environmental Finance group, will also generate carbon credits that can be traded on global climate exchanges.
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Sept 4, 2007
Cargill to convert waste to energy on Idaho dairy farm
WENDELL, Idaho– Cargill today announced plans to build and operate an anaerobic digester on Bettencourt Dairy
Farm’s new 10,000-cow farm here. The digester will convert cow effluent into 2.4 megawatts of power per year to be
sold back into the local power grid. Co-products from the process will be made into organic fertilizer and digested
solids for animal bedding.
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