Manure provides green power in Monroe

The Seattle Times
Originally published Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Sunday Buzz: Qualco's "green power" plant takes manure and turns it into electricity for Puget Sound Energy.
By Rami Grunbaum, Seattle Times deputy business editor

"Green power" comes out of the Qualco Energy biomass digester south of Monroe's suburban sprawl, but what goes in is runny, steamy and brown in the morning sunlight. You don't want it on your shoes.

This past week Puget Sound Energy bought its first batch of electricity from the digester. That culminates more than five years of political, financial and mechanical engineering by Qualco, an innovative nonprofit formed by local farmers, the Tulalip Tribes and a salmon-advocacy group.

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