Duke University to focus on powering campus with pig waste

Energy News Network: Duke University will indefinitely delay a proposed gas power plant for its campus in Durham, North Carolina, officials announced Friday.

The school said its “ immediate focus” will be meeting current energy needs with methane gas captured from North Carolina’s hog waste — the climate-friendly energy source the new plant was supposed to burn.

The announcement was a setback for Duke Energy, the utility that shares a namesake but no other connection to the university, which sought to own and operate the small plant that would initially run on fossil gas.

 

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