Capitalizing on Energy Opportunities on New York Dairy Farms

Abstract

Thank you for participating in the Dairy Power New York Summit: Creating a Greener, Cleaner Future, to be held October 29-30 at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool, N.Y. The stated focus for the Dairy Power Summit is ―to identify breakthrough approaches to widespread adoption of anaerobic digester (AD) technology by designing business strategies — specifically within New York — that build economic, social and environmental value.‖ This paper has been prepared specifically for this summit to provide a summary of anaerobic digestion (AD) in New York and to serve as reference material on the topic of AD. The paper is comprised of five chapters and an appendices section. The appendices are comprised of materials to support each of the chapters, along with a Glossary of Terms (Appendix 1) and List of Abbreviations (Appendix 2).