Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NorthWestern Energy CEO Brian Bird turns the valve at the company's new renewable natural gas injection site on April 22, 2024, in ...

Oakridge Dairy Farm in Ellington is the first farm in Connecticut to install a methane digester, which converts manure into natural gas - but how will it work? "Methane Digester is really just a big ...

BENSON, Minn. — A company from Denmark that harvests energy from manure and food waste is poised to bring its high-tech system to two Minnesota communities. Nature Energy’s business is to take manure ...

The project, which uses manure to provide natural gas for about 10,000 residential South Dakota customers annually, is part of NorthWestern’s goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 NorthWestern ...

MERCED, Calif. (KGO) -- At Vander Woude Dairy near Merced, California, thousands of cows are doing what cows do, giving milk, eating feed, and creating methane. The greenhouse gas is a bi-product of ...

BUCKEYE, Ariz. - It all starts here - with 25,000 dairy cows at Butterfield Dairy Farm in Buckeye. "Me and my three sons built this dairy, there was no contractor here, they did it all," said owner ...

BROOKINGS — A new facility sending renewable natural gas made from dairy cattle manure to local energy customers could be the first of several such plants, a utility company said Monday while ...

ELLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — An Ellington dairy farm now produces more than just milk. Farmer Seth Bahler is using technology to turn what his cows leave behind into natural gas. The milk that comes out ...

Starting later this summer, people across Connecticut might be getting their natural gas from cow manure. It's been nearly eight years since Oakridge Dairy Farm in Ellington began the process of ...