County offers tax breaks for two digesters’ $50M investment
By Chris Berendt, Sampson Independent – Civitas Media
“In Sampson, Michigan-based NOVI Energy is proposing to develop and operate two anaerobic digester power plants — the second and third such commercial-scale plants in the United States — that would each produce 4.2 megawatts of renewable electric energy for sale on the electric grid system. The plants would each digest organic agriculture waste that would produce bio-methane gas, which would the plant’s engines to generate the electricity
The proposed site for NOVI Carolina Digester I, LLC is over about 40 acres located within a larger tract of property on the western side of Clive Jacobs Road, approximately 0.6 miles south of N.C. 24. NOVI Carolina Digester II, LLC is proposed for a roughly 80-acre trace located on the southern side of Tomahawk Highway/N.C. 41, approximately 1.7 miles north of N.C. 210.”
Original article: clintonnc.com