Source: MEATINGPLACE, 1/2/12

Maryland’s Board of Public Works has approved a deal with Virginia-based EcoCorp to build a facility that would supply a quarter of the power needs at the Eastern Correctional Institution from chicken manure, The Daily Times reported.

The facility, expected to be online by 2013, would convert several thousand tons of chicken litter annually to produce 1 megawatt of energy. To read the full article, click here.   

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