Carbon Harvest’s approach to developing integrated energy-agriculture projects is highly collaborative, and involves performing an initial community resource assessment. By drawing upon local expertise and building early relationships with key stakeholders, we are able to:
- identify opportunities for systems integrations (i.e., where “wastes” can be repurposed as “resources”);
- design a project that is tailored to the specific needs, possibilities and challenges in that community/municipality/locale;
- build more enduring projects with shared benefits to partners and communities.
While this approach can take significant time and upfront resources, we believe it can result in a project with greater public awareness, support and overall success.
Project Developer working with Proven Experts and Technology
As project developer, owner and operator, Carbon Harvest Energy’s expertise is in project design and planning, financing, team management, permitting and regulatory compliance, renewable power purchase contract negotiation, greenhouse and aquaculture facilities design and operations, algae culture research and development and quality control. Because Carbon Harvest develops and invests in long-term facilities and business development on site, a management team remains in place for the life of the project.
Carbon Harvest uses proven technology and equipment for its renewable energy systems, teaming with the nation’s leaders in engineering, building and operating landfill gas-to-energy systems. SCS Engineers and SCS-Energy, based in Long Beach, CA is lead for energy plant engineering and construction, landfill gas collection system design, and combined heat and power system design. SCS-Energy has completed the design of numerous biogas-fueled power plants with an aggregated capacity of over 50 MW. Sanborn Head Associates, a New Hampshire and Vermont-based engineering firm, is Carbon Harvest’s landfill gas consultant and is responsible for landfill gas modeling and collection system design.
Our company’s partnering approach to project development gives us maximum flexibility in working with a community to design a project that is tailored to their interests, needs and available resources. With expertise in government and community relations, educational outreach and public relations, Carbon Harvest is capable of bringing the project to the community, helping the host municipality or private landfill owner gain wide value and recognition for the green project.
Carbon Harvest’s™ innovative business model linking energy and food production follows principals that incorporate a sustainable approach to the management of wastes and resources. Each closely engineered and professionally managed project benefits from the multiple revenue streams resulting from the sale of energy, carbon offsets, fish, and produce. Carbon Harvest projects provide a new, transferable model for our food system by demonstrating the feasibility of scalable, year-round, local food production that does not rely upon fossil fuel inputs. This is a new approach to energy and food security, and results in a stronger economic model realizing the significant savings and stability of owning the energy assets required to grow premium fresh organic food in northern markets.