Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 1/8/20

Wastewater from the world’s largest pork prodcessing plant in Tar Heel run by Smithfield Foods is being turned into electricty after first being used to create natural gas in a partnership with Duke Energy and Raleigh-based OptimaBio. This is the second such project by Duke Energy, the first being the Optima KV project involving several farms in Duplin County .

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