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The small city of Galt on Sacramento County\u2019s southern edge was founded by farmers, ranchers and dairymen like Arlin Van Groningen, a third-generation dairy farmer who continues the family tradition on a 90-acre plot off Harvey Road just north of town.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe concentrate on cows,\u201d he said. \u201cOur goal is to produce a clean milk product.\u201d<\/p>\n

And his 1,200 head of dairy cattle do that every day at New Hope Dairy, the operation he owns with fellow dairyman Arlan Van Leeuwen.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s what else New Hope\u2019s herd produces that caught the attention of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and will soon mean enough electric power for 250 Sacramento-area single-family homes.<\/p>\n

Biomass. Wet resources. Manure. Each of Van Groningen\u2019s milking cows produces 120 pounds of combined manure and urine each day. That\u2019s plenty of wet resources and more than enough to stock an advanced new dairy digester that produces and collects biogases to generate renewable electricity for SMUD.<\/p>\n

The dairy digester \u2013 a storage tank 26 feet deep \u2013 collects and breaks down the massive amounts of manure New Hope\u2019s cows produce, then sends the cleaned methane gases to an adjacent generator. The end product: 450 kilowatts of electricity.<\/p>\n

Officials at the utility, state and federal energy and agriculture officials, and bioenergy advocates gathered Tuesday at New Hope Dairy to dedicate and tour the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t have a better fuel supplier,\u201d said N. Ross Buckenham, chairman and chief executive officer of California Bioenergy, a partner in the three-year, $3.5 million project. \u201cDairy gas is a phenomenally valuable renewable resource and its time has come.\u201d<\/p>\n

SMUD is banking on it. The Sacramento utility received $5.5 million in grants from the federal Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission to help bankroll the building of New Hope\u2019s digester and another at the nearby Van Warmerdam dairy in Galt.<\/p>\n

German firm MT-Energie built the New Hope facility mimicking technology long used in Europe. The dairy\u2019s biogas facility began operations in June and soon will be connected to SMUD\u2019s grid.<\/p>\n

Two other digesters operate in SMUD\u2019s service territory west of Galt and south of Elk Grove. SMUD board President Bill Slaton said the biogas has become a vital part of the utility\u2019s energy portfolio. About 27 percent of SMUD\u2019s energy supply comes from renewable sources, he said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a hedge against costly peak-hour power, Slaton said. The New Hope generator produces energy that SMUD would use during the peak hours of 4 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 400 megawatts that we need for about 40 hours a year,\u201d Slaton said. \u201cWhen you buy it at the peak of the season \u2013 that\u2019s a higher cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

But financing, regulatory hurdles and other factors have frustrated other California farmers hoping to diversify their dairies by developing biofuels, said Julia Levin, executive director of the Bioenergy Association of California.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should be the first of 100 projects. We\u2019re the No. 1 dairy state in the country. We should be the No. 1 dairy digesting state,\u201d Levin said. \u201cIt\u2019s unique, but let\u2019s make it one of many, not the only one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Groningen admits that persuading him to convert his dairy waste into biofuel took some doing.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t skeptical of the technology. But, \u201cbeing in the dairy industry, we\u2019ve seen projects like this come and go,\u201d Van Groningen said. \u201cThe technology\u2019s been there for many years, but financing was the biggest hurdle. SMUD tore down walls and made it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as the renewables industry continues to grow, New Hope Dairy and other dairy operations are poised to turn waste into a much more valuable resource.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he first told me, I said it was a great opportunity to use the byproduct to generate power,\u201d said Arlin\u2019s father, Art Van Groningen, a dairy farmer near Visalia in Tulare County. \u201cIt\u2019s a whole new way of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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