From dung to $$$: El Paso biogas startup has big plans

El Paso Times | 11/07/2010
A small El Paso startup company has a plan that could upend the dairy industry, making it one of the most environmentally friendly businesses on the planet. Thirteen dairies along a 6-mile stretch of Interstate 10 between El Paso and Las Cruces produce about 1.6 billion pounds of cattle manure each year. Commuters roll up their windows to block the stench. It smells like money to Lorraine Wardy, chief executive officer of R-Qubed Energy. The company is in the first stages of building a biogas plant ....

Our view: Dairy methane: Using gas for energy

Sun-News report | 11/10/2010
Las Cruces— Get a whiff if this. You'd have never thought. Electricity from what the cows ate. Thirteen dairies we often "experience" on the drive between Las Cruces and El Paso will be part of an El Paso company's plan to turn methane from manure into electricity for the grid; and produce nitrogen-loaded liquid fertilizer, solid organic dry fertilizer and other enhancers for the soil. ....

COW PIE POWER: Southern N.M. plant to convert dairy-farm waste into biogas

TechZone360 | 08/02/2009
Aug 02, 2009 (Albuquerque Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Fifty-thousand dairy cows in southern New Mexico figure into PNM's plans to meet the state's renewable energy requirements. The utility plans to add biogas to its portfolio by purchasing methane gas derived from manure and send it by pipeline to natural gas-fired power plants, starting with the Luna generating plant near Deming.....

Passing biogas: R-Qubed project converts cow manure to methane

New Mexico Business Weekly | 06/08/2009
Some locals sarcastically joke that the stretch of dairy farms along Interstate 10 south of Las Cruces should be re-named "Buenos Aires" (fresh air). It's a reference to a less than aromatic sector of I-10 in southern New Mexico, not a reflection on the capital of Argentina. But that soon might change, thanks to a $72 million plan by R-Qubed Energy Inc. of El Paso to build one of New Mexico's first biogas plants, near the towns of Vado and Berino.....