Perdue Farms’ processing plant in Beaver Dam, Kentucky will receive $145,000 to support a project to convert poultry waste into electricity as part of a settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Perdue project will divert poultry waste from the county landfill to an anaerobic digestion and generator system. The system is expected to remove 1,500 tons of organic waste per year from the landfill and generate 620 megawatts of electricity per year.
The EPA settlement, which resolved alleged Clean Air Act violations at 11 Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired plants in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, requires the Tennessee Valley Authority to invest in new pollution controls and other clean energy initiatives. As part of the settlement, Kentucky will receive $11.2 million over a five-year period to implement environmental mitigation projects.
