Engines, fans and a burning desire for manure

General Electric

Widely accepted in Europe, the use of biogas digester systems with GE’s Jenbacher engines is a fairly new U.S. agri-business trend. In the past, some U.S. farmers had used old diesel motors and smaller gas engines until they began installing more durable, robust gas engines in recent years. To get a sense of how much “you-know-what” it takes, if you had 2,500 cows, 15,000 pigs or 300,000 chickens you can create enough biogas to power 900 homes in the European Union using just one of GE’s Jenbacher engines.