MORNING SENTINEL • July 6, 2022
In a first for Maine, a division of Colorado-based Summit Utilities is building an anaerobic dairy digester at a cost of at least $20 million that is to use manure from in-state farms to produce natural gas. “We’re taking a bad thing, emissions, and we’re turning it into a good thing, energy,” said Angus King III, president and CEO of Peaks Renewables, the Summit-affiliated company spearheading the effort. “The cows get to keep doing the magic that they do, turning grass into the milk that we all love, and now they’ve added a second trick to their repertoire.”