{"id":1653,"date":"2013-09-06T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:26:15","slug":"adam-wintle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/adam-wintle\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 77: Managing Partner of Biogas Energy Partners (BEP) Adam Wintle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 77
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, August\u00a031
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam Wintle
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Adam Wintle, Managing Partner of Biogas Energy Partners (BEP),\u00a0<\/a>grew up in Augusta and attended the University of Maine at Orono, where he earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003.\u00a0 Prior to his leadership role in the launch of Biogas Energy Partners and Exeter Agri-Energy<\/a>, Wintle was the founding principal of Strategic Equity Analytics, a financial services firm that helps clients with strategic financial analysis and investment placement support, in a variety of commercial real estate and business transactions.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left)\u00a0talking anaerobic digestion with Managing Partner of Biogas Energy Partners Adam Wintle (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

A family discussion in 2009 led to the founding of a renewable energy development firm under the name Biogas Energy Partners (BEP).\u00a0 Currently, Wintle is Managing Partner of BEP, and his brother John Wintle acts as project and facilities manager for the farm’s digester under the banner of Exeter Agri-Energy (EAE), a subsidiary of Stonyvale Inc.\u00a0 EAE handles day-to-day operations while BEP steers the project through economic, political and regulatory challenges inherent to any renewable energy project.\u00a0 Wintle told Stevoe how cow power is a constant source of energy that is already popular in Europe, with an estimated 5,000 anaerobic digesters operating in Germany.<\/p>\n

Stonyvale Farm is a fifth-generation family-owned dairy farm, located in Exeter, Maine (roughly 30 miles east of Orono).\u00a0 Stonyvale Farm is owned by the Fogler family and Wintle, a cousin to the Foglers, is following the tradition of keeping it a family farm.\u00a0 The farm has over 1,000 milking cows producing more than 22 million pounds of milk per year.\u00a0 In comparison Stonyvale’s cows produce up to 97 million pounds of solid waste each year.<\/p>\n

Under Wintle\u2019s direction of the anaerobic digestion system, the cow waste is piped to two big digestion vessels where it is mixed with food waste, and turns all the waste into a methane-rich biogas.\u00a0 The biogas given off by the mixture fuels a 16-cylinder, 1,500 horsepower engine. This engine produces about 4 million Btu of heat per hour (enough to replace 700 gallons of heating oil per day or 800 homes continuously.)\u00a0 This process is commonly known as “cow power\u201d, and eliminates greenhouse gases that otherwise would enter the atmosphere. \u00a0\u00a0Another benefit is it also creates byproducts (animal bedding and a less-odorous fertilizer) that save the farm about $100,000 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Managing Partner of Biogas Energy Partners (BEP) Adam Wintle joined TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods to discuss Maine’s first-of-its-kind, anaerobic digestion system that converts animal and food waste into methane-rich biogas. Wintle described for Stevoe the biological process of harnessing the waste and the future of BEP. Wintle told Stevoe how cow power is a constant source of energy that is already very popular in Europe, with an estimated 5,000 anaerobic digesters operating in Germany. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}