Ag-Grid Energy LLC

The founding of Ag-Grid Energy is the story of one woman’s dual vision: to create a business model for sustainable production of biofuel that would be carbon negative, and to make family farms more sustainable by sharing profits from the sale of biofuel as electricity or renewable natural gas (RNG). The European process created significant carbon emissions because its digesters used only 10% cow manure; the other 90% came from corn and hay crops grown and fermented strictly for use as biofuel. But the model’s signature element was offering each farm family a partnership through which they are guaranteed a share of profits from selling the fuel produced by the digester on their property. Fort Hill Farm is owned by the Orr Family and operated by Kies Orr LaVack and Jared LaVack.