Since 2006, Mohawk Fine Papers has committed to reduce over 8,500 tons of CO2 with NativeEnergy, by helping to build renewable energy projects.

Bos Farm
Mohawk Fine Papers’ support of the Bos Farm Methane Project via their carbon-offset purchase provides funding that is important to the project construction and operation.

Collectively with other offset purchasers from this project, Mohawk is supporting a new renewable energy project, reducing energy costs for a dairy farm, and reducing emissions that would have occurred in the absence of the project.

 

Since 2006, Mohawk Fine Papers has committed to reduce over 8,500 tons of CO2 with NativeEnergy, by helping to build renewable energy projects.

Bos Farm
Mohawk Fine Papers’ support of the Bos Farm Methane Project via their carbon-offset purchase provides funding that is important to the project construction and operation.

Collectively with other offset purchasers from this project, Mohawk is supporting a new renewable energy project, reducing energy costs for a dairy farm, and reducing emissions that would have occurred in the absence of the project.

 

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Des Plaines Landfill Methane Project
Mohawk Fine Papers’ support of the Des Plaines Landfill Methane Project via their carbon-offset purchase provides funding that is important to the project economics.

Collectively with other offset purchasers from this project, Mohawk is supporting a new renewable energy project, creating a market demand for landfill methane to energy projects, and reducing emissions that would have occurred in the absence of the project.

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Penn England Family Dairy Farm Methane Project
Mohawk Fine Papers’ support of the Penn England Dairy Farm Methane Project via its carbon offset purchase provided a portion of the direct and critical funding that was needed to complete the financing and construction of the project.

Collectively with other offset purchasers from this project, Mohawk helped to bring a new renewable energy project on line, reducing energy costs for a family dairy farm, and reducing emissions that would have occurred in the absence of the project.

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Following the success helping build manure digester projects on the Schrack and Dovan family farms, Fred and Cindy England are ramping up a manure digester on their 700-cow family dairy farm in Williamsburg, PA, which will power a 160 kW generator and will displace onsite fossil fuel use and emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

All but four farm workers are related family members (pictured above). Penn England is a member of the Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania, and is known for its environmental practices. The Englands have been involved in Pennsylvania dairy for over 100 years.

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Farmer Owned Wind
Mohawk Fine Papers’ support of NativeEnergy's Minnesota Farmer-Owned Distributed Wind project, via their carbon-offset purchase, "buys down" the premium cost of the renewable energy technology and makes these turbines affordable to farmers.


Collectively with other offset purchasers from this project, Mohawk Fine Papers is helping to build several small, distributed new wind-energy projects, reducing energy costs for farmers and reducing emissions that would have occurred in the absence of the project.

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NativeEnergy recently concluded a long-term agreement with Next Generation Power Systems, Inc., to support its sales and installations of German designed 40 kW Aeroman wind turbines that are remanufactured and customized for Midwest conditions.

With upfront funding from NativeEnergy reducing turbine costs to an acceptable level, these turbines will help farmers reduce their long-term electricity costs, while helping stabilize the electricity grid with distributed, small scale power generation.

NativeEnergy and NexGen expect to build eight turbines in 2006 and thirty or more in 2007.

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