Midwest 08 2014

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April 12, 2014 • Vol. IXX • No. 8 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910

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Native Americans Build Power Plant, Focus on Energy Efficiency By Lori Lovely CEG CORRESPONDENT

AGC Hosts Its First Ever Tech Fair...8

Ritchie Bros. Minn., Sale Attr act s Thousands...88

The Forest County Potawatomi Community recently constructed a $20 million renewable energy facility that will convert food waste into enough electricity to power about 1,500 homes. The plant is powered by biogas created in two 1.3-million-gallon anaerobic digesters, according to Charles Opferman, owner’s representative of Greenfire Management Services LLC a subsidiary of the Potawatomi Business Development Corporation and a construction and property management business owned by FCPC. “Its feedstock comes from byproducts of local and regional food processing resources.” Known as the FCPC Renewable Generation Digester, the power

The Forest County Potawatomi Community recently constructed a $20 million renewable energy facility that will convert food waste into enough electricity to power about 1,500 homes.

plant is funded by an initial Department of Energy grant for $2.6 million, a Section 1603 grant and Focus on Energy incentive — Wisconsin utilities’ statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource program.

Ground was broken in July 2012 and work on the site started at the beginning of October the same year.

FCPC obtained $2.6 million in competitive funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Community Renewable Energy Deployment program that underwrote the initial development of this project, Opferman said.

Preserving Tradition by Innovative Means The project is part of the Forest County Potawatomi Community’s commitment to environmental stewardship and a significant step see FCPC page 68

Continuing ConExpo Coverage CAS Cond ucts Fi rst Ind ianap oli s Sale. .. 92

see CONEXPO page 32

Table of Contents ................4 Skid Steers, Compact Track Loaders & Attachments Section ..........................37-58 Paving Section ..............71-81 Auction Section ............86-93 Business Calendar ............90 Advertisers Index ..............94

AEM kicked off ConExpo-Con/AGG 2014 with a creative and acrobatic opening ceremony.

Total registration of 129,364 soared past the last edition of the shows as they achieved the second-highest attendance in their history.


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