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Green Mountain Power (NYSE: GMP) and the University of
Vermont announced today a partnership to demonstrate a technology that
treats manure from a farmer's pit with an electrical charge, resulting
in a reduction of phosphorus and other nutrients and nearly
eliminating odor.
Green Mountain Power is purchasing a mobile unit from ElectroCell
Technologies of Colchester, which will be tested at UVM and then made
available to farm customers in its service territory to help them
comply with stricter state and federal regulatory run-off reduction
requirements that are expected this spring.
"We're very interested in the potential of this technology to help
our farm customers and to protect the environment, particularly Lake
Champlain," said Chris Dutton, president and chief executive officer
of Green Mountain Power. "We are committed to the use of technology to
provide superior service and we think ElectroCell is a perfect match
for our environmental protection orientation."
The technology was developed in Israel and licensed in North
America to ElectroCell Technologies. The University of Vermont's
Center for Emerging Technologies served as the incubator for this
manure treatment system.
Run-off from phosphorus-filled fertilizer and manure may
contribute to toxic algae blooms in Lake Champlain. Controlling
phosphorus is an expensive, difficult proposition for farmers.
"This technology has the promise to create an effective,
affordable solution to one of the nation's primary environmental
concerns for agriculture," said Daniel Mark Fogel, president of the
University of Vermont. "Developing new environmental technologies and
services that can be commercialized to help Vermont, the nation and
the world improve the environment is a natural role for Vermont, and
we're pleased that UVM's Center for Emerging Technologies is playing a
pivotal part in incubating and launching a company in this promising
business sector."
Buzz Hoerr, president and chief executive officer of ElectroCell
Technologies, said, "There is no one solution that will neatly solve
all of a farmer's phosphorus problems, but we believe that ElectroCell
can play a very important role in helping a farmer reach his or her
environmental goals and requirements."
ElectroCell Technologies has begun to manufacture units in South
Burlington, through a partnership with Peck Electric, that include
improvements on its original design developed in Israel, including
enhanced computer programming. In order to measure the effects of
these enhancements during the demonstration, the UVM Soil Sciences Lab
will measure bacterial and nutrient changes as a way to determine what
adjustments to the treatment process may be needed to refine the
system. When that process is complete, the unit will be made available
to Green Mountain Power farm customers.
For further information, please contact Dorothy Schnure, manager
of corporate communications, at 802-655-8418, Tom Rainey, president
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, University of Vermont, at
802-656-3880, or Buzz Hoerr, president and chief executive officer,
ElectroCell Technologies, 802-863-2486.