Impact Bioenergy commissions first microdisgester in British Columbia

Seattle-based company also recognized by several organizations.

December 18, 2015
REW Staff
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The team at Seattle-based Impact Bioenergy has commissioned and exported its first HORSE microdigester, in time for the holidays, to its client and channel partner in Surrey, British Columbia, GreenZone.

“I'm thankful to have had a solid customer base to support the appetite of this machine,” says Aeron Jensan, owner of GreenerZone.

Multiple recent awards, have provided more encouragement and credibility for the team’s first Community Supported Biocycling (CSB) project, says the company.

The city of Seattle has contracted the team to demonstrate the hyperlocal CSB model through 2016 with Fremont Brewing Co. and Seattle Urban Farm Co. With funds recently raised through their grassroots Kickstarter campaign, the Impact team has started fabricating multiple second-generation HORSEs to deploy in March.

Impact’s modular bioenergy systems provide a trifecta or “triple crown” of solutions including food waste recycling, renewable energy generation and natural plant food production. The HORSE for the Seattle CSB project has been dubbed Fremont Slew, after an American thoroughbred race horse named Seattle Slew who won the Triple Crown in 1977.

Recent Awards

  • Nov. 18, 2015 – Impact Bioenergy won the organics Innovation award from the Washington Organic Recycling Council at their annual meeting. WORC’s Annual Conference draws professionals from the US and Canada to learn and share cutting edge technology, challenges, and sustainable solutions in organics recycling, processing, markets, regulation and education.
  • Nov. 12, 2015 – Impact Bioenergy’s CSB competed against 70 Puget Sound companies for Kitsap Bank’s edg3 FUND, finishing as a top five finalist. The competition aims to provide funding for entrepreneurs dedicated to growing our community economically, socially, and environmentally.
  • Oct. 26, 2015 – The Global Cleantech Cluster Association named Impact Bioenergy as one of 30 companies globally and one of five companies from Washington to its Global Top 30 Later Stage Awards. Impact was recognized at a global award ceremony in Taipei in November. “No one beats Washington State in cleantech innovation,” said J. Thomas Ranken, President and CEO of the Cleantech Alliance. “Each of the five Washington State finalists is doing tremendously important work that will shape the way human kind functions for decades to come.”