Harvest Power Raises Another $6 Million To Turn Food And Yard Scraps Into Energy, Or Fertilizer
As Harvest Power CEO Paul Sellew told TechCrunch in March, the company will put the capital into building two, large biomass renewable energy projects — demo facilities — in Richmond, B.C. and another outside of Toronto. At these sites, the company will test new technology that they will use to process organic waste and turn it into fertilizers and energy at a lower cost than anaerobic digesters that are currently available.
[Update, May 24, 2011 1:45 p.m. ET] The company is also investing in a bit of green tech promotion, or as they call it a “knowledge sharing initiative” called SSO Superheroes. The program profiles fresh examples of projects, and people who are doing interesting things to recycle source-separated organics around North America.